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The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
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What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.
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Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains? Yes, I said.
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No longer were there individual destinies only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
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