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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Something must happen that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
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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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If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. Can they be brought together? This is a practical question. We must get down to it. I despise intelligence really means: I cannot bear my doubts.
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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
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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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the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}
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Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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