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Death
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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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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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Despair
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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
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Discontent
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Discovery
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
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Experience
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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.
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Face, Faces
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Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.
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Forgiveness
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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
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Freedom
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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
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The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
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Friends
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
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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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Government
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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Greatness & Great Things
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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Happiness
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
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History
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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Hurt, Injury
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To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
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Idealism
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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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Ideas
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Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shall hear, among the uproar of empires and nations, the faint fluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. Each and every one, on the foundations of their own suffering and joy builds for all.
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Identity
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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Ideology
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
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Books by and about Albert Camus