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I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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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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... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
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The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
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The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart.
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Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves.
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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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Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.
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No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
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Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live in fact, for the humiliated.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
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