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Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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