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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
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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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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
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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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The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
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There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.
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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.
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Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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