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And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.Albert Camus
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.Albert Camus
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Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.Albert Camus
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.Albert Camus
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.Albert Camus
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Live to the point of tears.Albert Camus
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.Albert Camus
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I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.Albert Camus
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.Albert Camus
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.Albert Camus
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest – whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories – comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.Albert Camus
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Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.Albert Camus
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Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.Albert Camus
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.Albert Camus
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I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.Albert Camus
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.Albert Camus
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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.Albert Camus
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.Albert Camus
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleepAlbert Camus
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Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.Albert Camus