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Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
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Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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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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Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
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When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
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Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)
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Am well. Thinking of you always. Love
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he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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Chacun exige d'e tre innocent, a' tout prix, me me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
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