I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
ALBERT CAMUSI opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
ALBERT CAMUSHappiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
ALBERT CAMUSI would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
ALBERT CAMUSI do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
ALBERT CAMUSThe purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUSBut what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
ALBERT CAMUSThere is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
ALBERT CAMUSDo not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
ALBERT CAMUSWhat made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
ALBERT CAMUSWe must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
ALBERT CAMUSThere is scarcely any passion without struggle.
ALBERT CAMUSPeople hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
ALBERT CAMUSA person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
ALBERT CAMUSBut sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSIt is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
ALBERT CAMUSI should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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