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A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
Albert Camus
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.
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You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.
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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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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
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A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
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The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
Albert Camus
It is immoral not to tell.
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You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
Albert Camus
The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.
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