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Author: Albert Camus
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Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other
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 _ A Happy Death
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 _ The Rebel
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 _ Notebooks, 1935-1951
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 _ L'Étranger / La Peste
L'habitude du desepoir est pire que le desespoir lui-meme.
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Albert Camus _ The Stranger
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
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Albert Camus _ The First Man
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
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Albert Camus _ The Stranger
The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.
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Albert Camus _ The Stranger
As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world- and finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators at my execution and that they should greet me with cries of hatred."
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Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other
Ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir.
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Albert Camus _ The Plague
Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.
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Albert Camus _ The Fall
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.
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