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

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.
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