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Finally, and most of all, words failed him.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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Without freedom there is no art.
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There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
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In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
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The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
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It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
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To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.
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I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
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