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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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But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
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Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
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A fate is not a punishment.
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For there is merely bad luck in not being loved there is misfortune in not loving.
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No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.
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Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
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