For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
ALBERT CAMUSA man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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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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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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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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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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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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Live to the point of tears.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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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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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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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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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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