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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
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The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
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My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.
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Ce que je sais de la morale, c'est au football que je le dois. (I know of morality, it is football that I owe.)
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And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
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