French - Philosopher | November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960
Integrity has no need of rules.
Albert Camus
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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There is no love of life without despair of life.
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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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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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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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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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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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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