{"author":"Albert Camus","author_id":"Albert+Camus","total_quotes":440,"quotes":[{"text":"From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["god","morality","philosophy","religion"],"id":414,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["existentialism","meursault","profound"],"id":2487,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["independence","sarcasm"],"id":2554,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["albert-camus","assassins","camus","death","fastidious","life","murder"],"id":3680,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["logic"],"id":6524,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory... Everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion - it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["desperation","life","love","memory"],"id":7290,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["creation","death","dying","killing","life","living","murder","self-determination"],"id":7984,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["judgement"],"id":8395,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"...He said firmly, 'God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble.' 'Obviously,' I replied, 'they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it.' I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["existentialism","god"],"id":8518,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["present"],"id":9287,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":440,"pages":44,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}