Albert Camus quote: "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."

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know thi...
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of ...
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in...
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the out...
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it,...
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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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God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same ...
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As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab...
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishe...
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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 my life ...
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
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He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
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Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the inteligent or the dull.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To lo...
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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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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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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much h...
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that...
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood ...
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Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside ...
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What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. T...
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
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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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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and ...
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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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 above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
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Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flow...
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A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
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Style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema
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The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone ...
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I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that i...
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop lovin...
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A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degr...
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I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every d...
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping f...
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He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in thems...
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La separación siempre es algo para quienes se quieren de verdad.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much...
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
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You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
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And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And i...
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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. I...
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ترجیح میدهم طوری زندگی کنم که گویی خدا هست و وقتی مُردم ...
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[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does n...
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I rebel — therefore we exist
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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When a conscious being appeared, the world went blank.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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It is almost impossible to watch a clockwise direction - it gets extremely boring and causes despair...
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Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.
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There are very few large and many poor feelings in everyone's life.
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The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is...
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Living above the world, each discovering his own weight, seeing his face brighten and darken with th...
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she lov...
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods...
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Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on...
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In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death
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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing
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You don't have to imagine what they would have to say,
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I'll think about it.
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After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she love...
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of hol...
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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որևէ քաղաք ճանաչելու ամենաճիշտ ձևերից մեկն էլ իմանալն ...
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What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I...
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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang ...
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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they...
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How could sincerity be a condition of friendship? A liking for the truth at all costs is a passion t...
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I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how ...
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How did I picture the life after the grave?

I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which ...
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On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow ...
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above th...
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Do you believe in God, doctor?"

No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the ...
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or...
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer
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Men die:and they are not happy.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never liv...
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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who hav...
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by you...
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My conclusion will be simple. It will consist of saying, in the very midst of the sound and the fury...
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just a...
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...
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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, a...
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of phil...
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do...
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If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable g...
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations whi...
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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value whi...
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the ...
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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no ar...
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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case...
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist ...
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself; he...
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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
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What is a rebel? A man who says no
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It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
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We only know of one duty, and that is to love.
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three grea...
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
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Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.
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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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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as ...
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence i...
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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 a...
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws...
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I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew...
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the ot...
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me f...
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hopi...
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the comm...
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a ...
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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 i...
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every o...
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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...
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Friendship is a treasured gift, and every time I talk with you I feel as if I'm getting richer and r...
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks ...
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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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Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the sa...
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Listen, Tar, ... This is the real problem: whatever happens, I shall always defend you against the f...
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we d...
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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly
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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are
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In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer
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Life is a sum of all your choices.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a roma...
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Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, e...
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that make...
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Por eso resulta tan desgarrador el amor de los hombres. No pueden evitar separarse de lo que aman.
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My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the mi...
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Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!
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There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
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Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere dee...
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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my
revolt, my freedom, and my passion...
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Le fameux discours de Saint-Just a ainsi tous les airs d'une étude théologique. "Louis [XVI] étra...
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I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for moder...
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion
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Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian
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There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.
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... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.
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Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
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This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise ...
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But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's dee...
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I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
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People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when...
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She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again...
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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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Albert Camus

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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