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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Albert Camus

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Beautiful Death Life Melancholy
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Alive Life Night Sleep Sleeping Stars
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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Life Love Turn Worth
The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Mind Need Vulgar
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Appeal Essence Innocence Nostalgia Rebellion Truth
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
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Away Distance Occasion Understand World
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
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Bore Live Man Memories Prison Realize
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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Fiction Happen Humor
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
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Civilization Destroy Life Winter Writing
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Courage Himself Kill Live Survival
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Courage Cowardice Lack Philosophy
I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
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Die Finding God Life Live
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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Death Die Excellence Live Reason
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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Atheist Believe God Religion

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