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History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

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 like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.
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Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
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The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
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I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?
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For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
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There is no love of life without despair of life.
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
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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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Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
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Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.
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It's not your pictures I like it's your painting.
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