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Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.
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Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
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Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
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I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
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There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man.
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On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.
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Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.
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