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A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
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You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
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Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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True artists scorn nothing.
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To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.
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On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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