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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
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The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
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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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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
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I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.
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