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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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We turn our backs on nature we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
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When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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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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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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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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To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten the means are taken for the end.
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Who taught you all this, doctor? The reply came promptly: Suffering.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
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The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
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But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
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There is merely bad luck in not being loved there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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