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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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When a war breaks out, people say: It's too stupid it can't last long. But though a war may well be too stupid, that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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Who taught you all this, doctor? The reply came promptly: Suffering.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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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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If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
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Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
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People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.
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The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
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Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
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Happiness too is inevitable.
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I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
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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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Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.
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[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
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