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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
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Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.
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The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
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Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
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That must be wonderful I have no idea of what it means.
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If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
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For there is merely bad luck in not being loved there is misfortune in not loving.
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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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As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.
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Find your happiness in yourself.
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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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... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
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The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
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When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears.
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I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
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