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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

Albert Camus

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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Condition Coward Despair Hope Humanity
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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Deal Existence Freedom World
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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Follow Friendship Lead Walking
Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Beautiful Need Revolution
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
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Absolute Inspirational Interest Success
I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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God Life Time Waste Wasted Time
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Absurd Concept Essential Humanity Truth
A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
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Heart Love Passion Person Presence Purpose
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Civilization Destroy Life Winter Writing
We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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Dreamss Learning Life Ourself
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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Humanity Love
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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Absolute Claim Man Truth World
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Country Justice Love Patriotism
I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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Beat Head Heart Imagination Moment
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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Death Execution Job People Thinking
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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Happiness Money People Spiritual

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