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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.
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A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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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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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.
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[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
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But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
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