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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.
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And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
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