French - Philosopher | November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
Albert Camus
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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 know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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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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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
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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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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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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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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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
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