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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.
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Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand
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If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
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The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
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We have art in order not to die of life.
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
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What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
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The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
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A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.
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