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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.
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I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
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I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
Albert Camus
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
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Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.
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It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
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I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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Happiness too is inevitable.
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The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .
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I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
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You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.
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I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
Albert Camus
