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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
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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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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
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the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
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[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
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What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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No excuses ever, for anyone that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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