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Albert Camus

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

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Live to the point of tears.

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Live to the point of tears.

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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

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