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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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Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.
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…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
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Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
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There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
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I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
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No ends, simply means.
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L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
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I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
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Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
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There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
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All I know of morality I learned from football
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
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