Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
ALBERT CAMUSReal generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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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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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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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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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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