Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUSI realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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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.
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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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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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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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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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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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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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