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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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Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
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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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Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
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La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.
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Proof is never definitive, after all one has to begin again with each new person.
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A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.
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