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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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A fate is not a punishment.
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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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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
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When a war breaks out, people say: It's too stupid it can't last long. But though a war may well be too stupid, that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
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In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.
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Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
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There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
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