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A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
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The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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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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