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Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
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Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
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If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
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Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.
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Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called the act of love, or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.
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Do you believe in God, doctor? No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence
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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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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
Albert Camus
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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