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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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Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
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I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.
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This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.
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I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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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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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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