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We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
— Albert Camus The Rebel
Tags: philosophy, nihilism, existentialism

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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
— Albert Camus
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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
— Albert Camus
Tags: choose, being, friend, never
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
— Albert Camus
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
— Albert Camus
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
— Albert Camus
Tags: confession, needs, conscience, guilty, art, work
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