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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
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Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
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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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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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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
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To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.
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We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
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Life is the sum of your choices.
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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
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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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Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
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