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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Duty Know Love Only To Love

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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Beautiful Blinds Contrary Enhances Every Falsehood Light Like Object On The Contrary Truth Twilight

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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.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Beauty Despair Drives Eternity Glimpse Like Minute Offering Out Over Should Stretch Time Unbearable Us Whole

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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

~Albert Camus

Topics: After Best Books Collection Days Done Get Knowledge Manner Place Professors True University Us

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At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Above Accept Defects Exact Failures Far Foretell Go Hand He Himself His How How Far Know Like Man Number Palm Qualities Should Things

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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Alone Learning Lies Only Progress Real Wrong

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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Away Occasion Order Turn Understand World

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Any Complete Fact Find Intelligence Itself Knowledge Mind Modern Neither Nihilism Nor Our Point Stretched Suffering Where World

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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Besides Cannot Citizens Directly Goods Immoral Indirect More Note Price Rob Slip Taxes Than Without

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I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Found Gray Grew Lost Luxuries Me Poverty Sea Then Unbearable Up

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 7th, 1913

Died: January 4th, 1960

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