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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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For there is merely bad luck in not being loved there is misfortune in not loving.
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Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'
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When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
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what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger
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In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.
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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
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Finally, and most of all, words failed him.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.
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There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
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A loveless world is a dead world.
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
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