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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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If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
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I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss
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Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
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What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret.
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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared it is born of their confrontation.
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I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
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