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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
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God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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