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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. (Albert Camus)
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. View quote
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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 all that will never change. View quote
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. View quote
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Don't let them tell us stories. View quote
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. View quote
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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works. View quote
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. View quote
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. View quote
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. View quote
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Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them. (Albert Camus)
And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye. View quote
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At this point of his effort man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. View quote
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To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. View quote
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. View quote
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There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4. View quote
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Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die. View quote
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Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. That is why some of our thinkers feel free to say just about anything. View quote
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret. View quote
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Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror. View quote
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A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses. (Albert Camus)
With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotences. View quote
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The direction of the world overwhelms me at this time. In the long run, all the continents (yellow, black and brown) will spill over onto Old Europe. They are hundreds and hundreds of millions. They are hungry and they are not afraid to die. We no longer know how to die or how to kill. We could preach, but Europe believes in nothing. So, we must wait for the year 1000 or a miracle. For my part, I find it harder and harder to live before a wall. View quote
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We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her. View quote
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Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island. View quote
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