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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains? Yes, I said.
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Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
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Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
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Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
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The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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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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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
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Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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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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I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.
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Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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That must be wonderful I have no idea of what it means.
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Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
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