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Life is the sum of your choices.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: From wherever you are, enter and be welcome. Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.
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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
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After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.
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In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.
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I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
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I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
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I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
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No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
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Life is the result of all your choices.
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The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.
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How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?
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But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.
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We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.
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