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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
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If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
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