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L'habitude du desepoir est pire que le desespoir lui-meme.
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Albert Camus |
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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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Albert Camus |
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The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe.
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Albert Camus |
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You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters- all that matters, really- is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest- women, art, success- is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
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Albert Camus |
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It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful." --
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Albert Camus |
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Gula and Cali lie on their sides, their tiny adder-mouths showing the pink of their palates, their bodies throbbing with lustful and obscene dreams. The sky releases its burden of sun and color. Eyes closed, Catherine takes the long fall that carries her deep into herself, down where some animal stirs gently, breathing like a god.
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As they left, the girls were choking with laughter, but once they reached Mersault's house and the cool shade of the rooms, which emphasized the dazzling whiteness of the sun-drenched garden walls, they discovered a silent harmony that Catherine expressed by the desire to take a sunbath on the terrace.
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Albert Camus |
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Catherine!Su beylik lafi bilirsin:'Dunyaya yeniden gelseydim,' iste ben de yasamima bugun oldugu yerden baslamak isterdim.
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Albert Camus |
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We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.
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Albert Camus |
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
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Albert Camus |
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I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine.
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Albert Camus |
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Great novelists are philosopher novelists -- that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
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Albert Camus |
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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Albert Camus |
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Knowing whether or not one can live without appeal is all that interests me.
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Albert Camus |
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Albert Camus |
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The preceding merely defines a way of thinking. But the point is to live.
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Albert Camus |
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To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.
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Albert Camus |
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If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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Albert Camus |
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One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
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Albert Camus |
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Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
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Albert Camus |
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A fate is not a punishment.
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Albert Camus |
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The actor's realm is that of the fleeting.
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Albert Camus |
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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Albert Camus |
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The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
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Albert Camus |
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'I'm glad to know he's [Paneloux] better than his sermon.'
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Albert Camus |
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'At my age one's got to be sincere. Lying's too much effort.'
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Albert Camus |
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there are more things to admire in men than to despise.
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Albert Camus |
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What is a rebel? A man who says no.
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Albert Camus |
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
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Albert Camus |
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Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
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Albert Camus |
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Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
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Albert Camus |
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Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
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Albert Camus |
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I rebel -- therefore we exist.
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Albert Camus |
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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Albert Camus |
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The artist reconstructs the world to his plan.
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Albert Camus |
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Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
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Albert Camus |
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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Albert Camus |
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Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!
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Albert Camus |
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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Albert Camus |
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A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.
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Albert Camus |
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It's better to bet on this life than on the next.
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Albert Camus |
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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
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Albert Camus |
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Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
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Albert Camus |
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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Albert Camus |