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Men die and they are not happy.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
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but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand
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It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
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In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
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In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
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One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
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I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
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True artists scorn nothing.
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We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.
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