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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.
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I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.
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No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
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And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.
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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.
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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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Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games one must first answer.
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The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
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