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True artists scorn nothing.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
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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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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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