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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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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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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.
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The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
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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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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains? Yes, I said.
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We turn our backs on nature we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
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The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.
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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
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We are all special cases.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
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