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Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism.
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
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“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
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“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
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“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
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“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
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“There is no love of life without despair of life.”
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“There is no love of life without despair of life.”
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“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
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“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
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“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
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“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
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“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
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“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
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“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
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“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”
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“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
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“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
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“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
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“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”
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“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”
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“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
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“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
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“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”
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“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”
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“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
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“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
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“Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.”
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“Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.”
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“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
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“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
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“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
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“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
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“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”
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“It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.”
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“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
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“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
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“We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.”
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
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“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
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“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
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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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“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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“Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.”
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“Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.”
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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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“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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“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.”
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“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.”
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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
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“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.”
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“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.”
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“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
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“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
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“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”
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“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”
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“Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.”
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“Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.”
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“I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.”
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“I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.”
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“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
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“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
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“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
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“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
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“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
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“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
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“We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.”
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“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
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“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
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“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
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“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
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“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
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“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
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“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
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“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
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“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
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“How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
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“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
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“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
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“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
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“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
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“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
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“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.”
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“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
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“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
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“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”
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“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”
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“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
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“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
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“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”
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“Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.”
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“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
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“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
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“Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.”
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“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
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“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
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“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
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“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
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“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.”
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“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.”
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“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
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“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
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“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
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“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
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“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.”
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“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.”
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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
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“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”
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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
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“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”
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“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
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“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
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“Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.”
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“Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.”
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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
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“You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.”
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“You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.”
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“The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.”
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“The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.”
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“The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.”
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“The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.”
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“Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.”
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“Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.”
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“I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.”
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“I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.”
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“To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?”
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“To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?”
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“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
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“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
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“Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.”
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“Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.”
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“Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”
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“Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.”
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“Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.”
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“Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.”
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“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
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“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”
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“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”
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“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”
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“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”
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“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”
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“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.”
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“Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.”
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“I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.”
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“I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
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“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend”
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“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend”
Albert Camus
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
Albert CamusPhilosopher
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Albert Camus
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
Albert Camus
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“Live to the point of tears.”
Albert CamusPhilosopher
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Albert Camus
“Live to the point of tears.”
Albert Camus
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“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
Albert CamusPhilosopher
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Albert Camus
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
Albert Camus
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert CamusPhilosopher
EVEQUOTE ARCHIVE // Quote by Albert Camus
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
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