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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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Those who write clearly have readers.
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But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
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For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
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what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger
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Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
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The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
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It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
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There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
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To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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Something must happen that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
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Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.
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