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To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
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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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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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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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We are not certain, we are never certain.
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Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.
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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
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The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
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I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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