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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games one must first answer.
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One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
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The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
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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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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'
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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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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
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There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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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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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.
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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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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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