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Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
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It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.
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I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine
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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.
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That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday I can't be sure.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'.
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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
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The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
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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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