I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
ALBERT CAMUSSeeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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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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The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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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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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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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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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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