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The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
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Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday.
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To lose one's life is no great matter when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
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The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
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I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.
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The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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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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[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Men die and they are not happy.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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