Albert Camus quote

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- Well, the tragedy is over. The failure is complete. I turn my head and go away. I took my share in this fight for the impossible.

- The truth, as the light, makes blind.

- There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

- You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

- All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

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

- Style, like the sheer silk underwear, sometimes hides eczema.

- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no!  It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

- Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

- How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

- I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

- There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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