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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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How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
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I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
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For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
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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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Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
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The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.
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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
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There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
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Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.
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