The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUSSince we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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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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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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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I 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
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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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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