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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
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This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.
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Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
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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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Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
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There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.
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For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
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He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
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In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.
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I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
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No ends, simply means.
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In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
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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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