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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
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There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
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The act of love is a confession.
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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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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 Plague)
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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What is a rebel? A man who says no.
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing
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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared it is born of their confrontation.
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And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
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No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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Don't let them tell us stories.
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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
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