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Morality, when formal, devours.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.
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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
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The truth, as the light, makes blind.
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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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L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
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To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
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We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world it is to transform them in ourselves and others.
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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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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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All I know of morality I learned from football
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