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Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

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 important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
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We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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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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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.
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