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Quote by Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. - Albert C

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

Other quotes by Albert Camus

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. – William Hazlitt, The English Comic Writers, 1819

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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. – Yugoslav Proverb

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Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. – John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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Man — a being in search of meaning. – Plato

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