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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
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