What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
ALBERT CAMUSTo feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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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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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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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 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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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