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What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
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A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
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Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
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There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
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In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
Albert Camus
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
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Finally, and most of all, words failed him.
Albert Camus
It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
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[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?
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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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Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
Albert Camus
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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