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Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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...he said firmly, God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble. Obviously, I replied, they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it. I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games one must first answer.
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
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No longer were there individual destinies only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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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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For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
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