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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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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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A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
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That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
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You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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Liberty is the right not to lie.
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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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Integrity has no need of rules.
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We are not certain, we are never certain.
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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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People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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