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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
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A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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The mysterious universe is always calling, and, in some form or other, we are always answering.
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Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
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Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.
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To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey.
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For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.
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No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.
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Somebody has to have the last word. Otherwise, every reason can be met with another one and there would never be no end to it.
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There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
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What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.
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Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
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A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.
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The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.
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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
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Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
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We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
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Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.
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In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
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To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
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To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
November 7, 1913
Died:
January 4, 1960
(aged 46)
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Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism.
Known for:
The Stranger (1942)
The Plague (1947)
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
The Fall (1956)
The Rebel (1951)
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