For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style. - Albert Camus
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For anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Hence one must choose a master, God being out of style.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French Pied-Noir author, absurdist philosopher and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
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