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" Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. "
Albert Camus
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" 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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" All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football. "
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" We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. "
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" In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. "
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" Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself. "
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" 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. "
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" To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows. "
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" Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. "
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" Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me. "
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" It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. "
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" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "
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" A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "
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" At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. "
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" The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. "
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" Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. "
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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. "
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" Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. "
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" Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. "
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" The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. "
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" I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up. "
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