I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
ALBERT CAMUSThe truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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A 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.
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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