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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
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Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
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Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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We turn our backs on nature we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
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All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
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At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.
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To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.
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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
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Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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