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Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

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 realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
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There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
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There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
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No ends, simply means.
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Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.
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Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality.
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In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
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I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
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The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
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Who taught you all this, doctor? The reply came promptly: Suffering.
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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
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