{"quotes":[{"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":"In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our truth.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["albert-camus","letters-to-a-german-friend","war"],"id":31249,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"To create is to live twice.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["albert-camus","create","live"],"id":41191,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while cherishing the idea of a higher civilization.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["albert-camus","letters-to-a-german-friend","war"],"id":49434,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["aberjhani-on-albert-camus","albert-camus","albert-camus-100th-birthday","books","celebrity-birthdays","famous-","french-algerian-","literary-genius","nobel-laureates","nobel-prize-in-literature","philosophy","reading"],"id":58767,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We were forced to despair. We were cut off from the world because to each moment clung a whole mass of mortal images. For five years the earth has not seen a single morning without death agonies, a single evening without prisons, a noon without slaughter.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["albert-camus","letters-to-a-german-friend","war"],"id":72388,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["albert-camus","lecture","philosophy","sleep"],"id":76837,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and which is calmly and surely preparing out of the ruins to make another history…Your nation, on the other hand, has received from its sons only the love it deserved, which was blind. A nation is not justified by such love. That will be your undoing. And you who were already conquered in your greatest victories, what will you be in the approaching defeat?","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["albert-camus","letters-to-a-german-friend","war"],"id":89638,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["ache","albert-camus","camus","heart","love","pain"],"id":101054,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["albert-camus","philosophy","writers"],"id":110999,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}