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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.
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Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.
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What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?
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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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Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
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... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
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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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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
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Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?
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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.
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What is a rebel? A man who says no.
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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