What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
("The Plague")
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But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make fourAlbert Camus
To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
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A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
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On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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