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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.
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The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
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La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.
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There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
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