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I see many people die because ...

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

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He had been bored, that's all,...

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

The truth is that every intell...

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Great ideas, it has been said,...

Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

In normal times all of us know...

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Mother died today. Or maybe ye...

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

I felt the urge to reassure hi...

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

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maybe she had become tired of ...

maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. [...] Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Our civilization survives in t...

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents

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And then came human beings; hu...

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

A craving for freedom and inde...

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

At one time or another all nor...

At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

stupidity has a knack of getti...

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

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He had opened his heart to the...

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

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In this respect, our townsfolk...

In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.

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How many crimes are permitted ...

How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

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Revolt and revolution both win...

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

Absurdism, like methodical dou...

Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

There is always a philosophy f...

There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.

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There are some individuals who...

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.

Albert Camus 1179 quotes

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