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Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
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If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
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In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.
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From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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We're going forward, but nothing changes.
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Why must one love rarely to love well?
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There is no frontier between being and appearing.
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How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
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No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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No longer were there individual destinies only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
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The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
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