There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

—Albert Camus

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About Albert Camus

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Albert Camus ( kam-OO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature...

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America: a country where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic.

—Albert Camus

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

—Albert Camus

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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

—Albert Camus

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for joy.

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Will is the means by which we overcome the problems that life or genes have handed us. Without it, there is no true character.

—Jacob Needleman

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