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I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only than.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.
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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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Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
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[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
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Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
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But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
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