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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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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
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I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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I rebel therefore I exist.
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Everybody knows life isn't worth living.
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In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters you finally hand over your brothers.
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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Life is the sum of your choices.
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I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
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A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
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There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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