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In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
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All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.
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Something must happen that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
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Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
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There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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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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The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
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But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
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