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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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Freedom is the right to never have to lie.
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Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
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The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
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