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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.
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There is no love of life without despair of life.
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The truth, as the light, makes blind.
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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared it is born of their confrontation.
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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.
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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
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To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.
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All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.
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I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
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What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland
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