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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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For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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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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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.
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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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When there is no hope, one must invent hope.
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Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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True artists scorn nothing.
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At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
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What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.
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