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"One does not decide the truth of a thought according to whether it is right-wing or left-wing."
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Albert CamusArtistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. — Albert Camus
"Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world."
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Albert Camus
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Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
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"The absurd man says yes and his effort will henceforth be unceasing."
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"All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly. It is ready to pay up. In other words, there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones, in its opinion. At very most, such a mind will consent to use past experience as a basis for its future actions."
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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
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"Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood—never!"
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"In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it."
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