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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.
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As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.
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After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
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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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What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
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A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
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To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
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I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: Be wary. On my business cards:Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor.
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Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
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Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four
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