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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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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
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The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.
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What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
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Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
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At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
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The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
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The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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