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... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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The harshest winter finds an invincible summer in us.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
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