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the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
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...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
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I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.
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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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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
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Do you believe in God, doctor? No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
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The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
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Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
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Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
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Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
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The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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