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Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
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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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Who taught you all this, doctor? The reply came promptly: Suffering.
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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 said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
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The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
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Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.
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The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
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One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
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Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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stupidity has a knack of getting its way as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
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But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
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There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.
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But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short.
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maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.
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And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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