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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
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But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
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Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
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After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
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