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Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we’d never be done with it.
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At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. As it is, in its distressing nudity, in its light without effulgence, it is elusive.
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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
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A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to slaves.

The Rebel (1951)

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What we learn in a time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.

The Plague (1947)

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Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Combat (1945)

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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
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