Albert Camus - The Fall (1956)

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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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I'll tell you a big secret, mon cher. Don't wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.

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One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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The act of love... is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

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Let's not beat around the bush; I love life — that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

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Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood – never!

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That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

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When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

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One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

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The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy.

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My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

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As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

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"This is the truth," we say. "You can discuss it as much as you want; we aren't interested. But in a few years there'll be the police who will show you we are right."

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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

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I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

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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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We're not sure, we can't be sure. Otherwise, there would be a solution; at least one could get oneself taken seriously.

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Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

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We are all special cases. We all want to appeal against something! Everyone insists on his innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.

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I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

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When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

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God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

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Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

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I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

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In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that's all.

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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long.

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I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.

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We seldom confide in those who are better than ourselves.

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