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
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— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959.
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“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself”
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks, 1935-1942
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Camus: If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: “I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.” And, as far as everything else is concerned, I say no.
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Marbre de jeune fille, Musée de Rennes, France
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Rosario Castellanos, "Entrevista de prensa"
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From the 1891 edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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“When a lie is repeated long enough, people start believing it. Because people need faith.” - Danilo Kis, encyclopedia of the dead
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cause they’re just girls, breaking hearts
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