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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

There is not love of life without despair about life.
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Despair Life Love One Liner
I rebel; therefore I exist.
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Existence One Liner Rebel
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Beautiful Death Life Melancholy
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Door Happiness Knock Sad Time
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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Capable Cold Deed Emotion Leaving Man
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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Doubt Fear Life Love Romance Ugly
I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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Dreamss People
The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Healing Kill Life Myself
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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Judgement Life Wait Wasted Time
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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Humanity Love
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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Constent Forgiveness Happiness Life Success
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Courage Himself Kill Live Survival
The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Mind Need Vulgar
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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Heart Love Passion Person Presence Purpose
I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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Imagination Incapable Life Love Weakness
I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
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Die Finding God Life Live

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