And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
ALBERT CAMUSHe who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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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 may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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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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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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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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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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