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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
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We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.
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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
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But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
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I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.
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I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
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Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.
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