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Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French author, journalist, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner. His writings contributed to the rise of absurdism, and though he was often considered an existentialist, he rejected that description and remained critical of the philosophy.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHe who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageA man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageHuman relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future—and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI don’t want to be a genius—I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageA man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThere is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.

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