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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
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)
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You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
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I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
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We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
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I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: From wherever you are, enter and be welcome. Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.
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One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.
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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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Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.
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What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?
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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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