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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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 grows out of pity when it's useless.
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
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I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
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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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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
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I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.
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He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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Why must one love rarely to love well?
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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
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