There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the res… - Albert Camus

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There lay certitude; there, in the daily round. All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.

Albert Camus

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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.

With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotences.

There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.

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