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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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life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
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Chacun exige d'e tre innocent, a' tout prix, me me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
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I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
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No ends, simply means.
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