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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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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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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.
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When the body is sad, the heart languishes.
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One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
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A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
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A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
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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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[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
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Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
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A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
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