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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters you finally hand over your brothers.
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But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
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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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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
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Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)
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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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