And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
ALBERT CAMUSYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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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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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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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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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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We are all special cases.
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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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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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