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Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four
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In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.
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Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
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The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
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Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
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In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
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I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.
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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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Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend they shall never be broken.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
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Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
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