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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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Albert Camus |
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d528e22
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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philosphy
nihilism
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Albert Camus |
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e523786
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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Albert Camus |
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4fdcccd
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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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Albert Camus |
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8a02c38
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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Albert Camus |
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4941743
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I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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Albert Camus |
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324236c
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I would like to be able to breathe-- to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
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pain
heart
love
albert-camus
camus
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Albert Camus |
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7be0120
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Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or..
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Albert Camus |
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77b27c2
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Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un ete invincible.
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seasons
strength
hardship
self
summer
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Albert Camus |
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00d095a
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After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
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the-stranger
kami
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Albert Camus |
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888f108
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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
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judgement
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Albert Camus |
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aad032b
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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Albert Camus |
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39b1ea4
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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
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money
pursuit-of-happiness
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Albert Camus |
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He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
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war
slavery
death
complication
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Albert Camus |
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f9cff3f
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The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind..
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Albert Camus |
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c3c6dee
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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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Albert Camus |
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7c41b11
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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.
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Albert Camus |
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2a506c3
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Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.
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literature
life
philosophy
the-stranger
albert-camus
existentialism
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Albert Camus |
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441fe4b
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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Albert Camus |
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247109b
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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Albert Camus |
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98d54f2
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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Albert Camus |
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d78e5d2
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I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
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Albert Camus |
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When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.
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Albert Camus |
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09b55b2
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God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves. You were speaking of the Last Judgement. Allow me to laugh respectfully. I shall wait for it resolutely, for I have known what is worse, the judgement of men. For them, no extenuating circumstances; even the good intention is ascribed to crime. Have you at least heard of the spitting cell, which a nation recently thought up to prove itself the greate..
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humanity
spiritual
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Albert Camus |
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8797864
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
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suffering
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Albert Camus |
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adf6da2
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Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. We live on the future: "tomorrow," "later on," "when you have made your way," "you will understand when you are old enough." Such irrelevancies are wonderful, for, after all, it's a matter of dying. Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he situates ..
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Albert Camus |
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hmyshh rwzhyy hst khh nsn dr an khsny r khh dwst dshth st, bygnh my ybd
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Albert Camus |
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6874b87
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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rebellion
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Albert Camus |
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7a237c4
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Albert Camus |
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d13454c
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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Albert Camus |
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4802e68
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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Albert Camus |
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0b28f27
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Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-etre hier, je ne sais pas.
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Albert Camus |
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072b25d
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But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
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Albert Camus |
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017c679
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Albert Camus |
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6f04fb2
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always decieve ourselves twice about the people we love-first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage
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Albert Camus |
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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
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oppression
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Albert Camus |
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3c2f876
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In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one's cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That's why life is difficult to live.
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Albert Camus |
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dfd56d1
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But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.
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Albert Camus |
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58ff3ca
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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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culture
creation
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Albert Camus |
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d9f6ff5
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.
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Albert Camus |
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410e93f
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Albert Camus |
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1083416
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One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
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Albert Camus |
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5ff2f01
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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 not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In defaul..
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suffering
love
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Albert Camus |
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76fff7f
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I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.
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Albert Camus |