Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
ALBERT CAMUSI like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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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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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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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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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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