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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Energy Merely Nobody Normal People Some Some People Tremendous

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I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Die Find God Life Live My Life Out Rather Than Would

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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Act Appeal Being Essence Every Expresses Innocence Nostalgia Rebellion

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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Absurdity Any Corner Face Feeling Man Street Strike

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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Anything Bad Certainly Course Free Free Press Freedom Good Most Never Press Will Without

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There is no love of life without despair of life.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Despair Life Love No Love Without

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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Mind Need Right Sign Vulgar

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Big Big City City Desert Life Means Nowadays Only Our Remedy Society Suggest Within Would

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Alibi Always Been Particular People Tyrants Welfare

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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Carry Chord Ears Escape Eternally Even Melody Never Notes Occasionally Our Perceive Quiet Same Silence Sounds Those Us Vibrations Which World

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 7th, 1913

Died: January 4th, 1960

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