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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
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... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
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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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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
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The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
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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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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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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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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
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[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
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This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
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