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If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
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I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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