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#1

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

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#2

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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#3

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#4

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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#5

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

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#6

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

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#7

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

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#8

“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: afterlife, compassion, life, religion

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#9

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
― Albert Camus

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#10

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: carpe-diem, future, present

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#11

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: judgement

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#12

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
― Albert Camus

tags: absurdism

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#13

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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#14

“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
― Albert Camus

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#15

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume II: 1939-1948

tags: language, poetry, words

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#16

“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: fairy-tales

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#17

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
― Wystan Hugh Auden

tags: human-nature, poetry

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#18

“Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....”
― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems

tags: evil, familiarity

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#19

“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: affection, equality, love, relationships

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#20

“Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”
― W.H. Auden

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#21

“The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.”
― W. H. Auden

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#22

“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
― W. H. Auden

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#23

“You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: vocation

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#24

“Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.”
― W.H. Auden

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#25

“There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.”
― W.H. Auden

tags: art, dichotomy

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#26

“We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.”
― W H Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

tags: change, fear, poetry

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#27

“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden

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#28

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
― W. H. Auden

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#29

“The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.”
― W.H. Auden

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#30

“Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think”
― W.H. Auden

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