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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.
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From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.
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Freedom is the right to never have to lie.
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Absurd- that is the light mind that establishes its own borders.
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
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The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.
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I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?
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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.
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.
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To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
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We're all special cases.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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Find your happiness in yourself.
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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation.
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
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