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Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
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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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Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
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History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
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False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.
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Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
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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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