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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he 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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... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
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The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
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[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.
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Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
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Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
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The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
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