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Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
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May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!
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I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk, which enhances the value of each object.
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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
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…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.
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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
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[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
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... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
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Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
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Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
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No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
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She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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