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A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!
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But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
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Some are created to love, while the others - to live.
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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten the means are taken for the end.
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Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.
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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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