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Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
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That must be wonderful I have no idea of what it means.
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Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
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In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.
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But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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We are all special cases.
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What is a rebel? A man who says no.
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If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.
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For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
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When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
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I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.
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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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Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
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... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
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My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
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