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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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