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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
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It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.
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he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called the act of love, or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
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