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We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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