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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
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Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
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My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
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Without freedom there is no art.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice hideous, witless justice.
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There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved
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But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
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