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I rebel therefore I exist.

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 future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. Can they be brought together? This is a practical question. We must get down to it. I despise intelligence really means: I cannot bear my doubts.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
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Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
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Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence
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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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I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.
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Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.
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