The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUSBut sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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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
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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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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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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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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