I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
ALBERT CAMUSEvery act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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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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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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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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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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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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We are all special cases.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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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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Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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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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Integrity has no need of rules.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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