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What does it mean?
Judgment is not a final event but happens constantly throughout everyday life.
In plain terms
Don't wait for a final judgment; every day is a day of judgment.
What can you take from it?
Judgment happens every day.

Where it applies

  • ethical decision making
  • self-reflection
  • daily choices

Putting it to work

  • be accountable daily
  • live ethically
  • check your actions

Questions to consider

  • How do you judge your daily actions?
  • Is there a final judgment?

Another view

Not every day feels like a day of judgment.

More from Albert Camus

  1. Let's not beat around the bush; I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

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  2. I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

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  3. In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.

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