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There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
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how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
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Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. Can they be brought together? This is a practical question. We must get down to it. I despise intelligence really means: I cannot bear my doubts.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
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Find your happiness in yourself.
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.
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Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
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