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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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The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.
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Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
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Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.
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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
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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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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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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
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I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.
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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 absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday I can't be sure.
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Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
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In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
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