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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.
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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
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If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
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There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
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...he said firmly, God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble. Obviously, I replied, they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it. I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
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People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
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Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.
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There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
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This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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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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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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