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Art does not tolerate reason.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
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Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
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Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.
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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
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The absurd is sin without God.
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For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
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I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.
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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.
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One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
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How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!
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