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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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No longer were there individual destinies only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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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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There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
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I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.
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Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
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As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
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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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It's not your pictures I like it's your painting.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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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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With rebellion, awareness is born
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There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.
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