Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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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 may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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