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Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.
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O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
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