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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.
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There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
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The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
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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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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
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Liberty is the right not to lie.
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
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Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
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the one who doesnt play, doesnt win anything, but he actually looses somehting, {playing}
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
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