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We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
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Albert Camus
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BirthDate
07 November, 1913
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04 January, 1960
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