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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

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 world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
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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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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared it is born of their confrontation.
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Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
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The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.
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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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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.
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No ends, simply means.
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For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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