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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
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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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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
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Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss
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If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
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There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.
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La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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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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Why must one love rarely to love well?
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As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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