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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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It is easier to kill what we do not know.
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Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
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In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
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We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
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Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
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