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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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Chacun exige d'e tre innocent, a' tout prix, me me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
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In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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There is only one class of men, the privileged class
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The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate it binds.
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In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
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Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
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A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.
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Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
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In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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