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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
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It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus
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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Albert Camus
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
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