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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
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Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
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Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
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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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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
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The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
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He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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