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The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
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I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
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You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.
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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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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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When a war breaks out, people say: It's too stupid it can't last long. But though a war may well be too stupid, that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
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