Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
ALBERT CAMUSIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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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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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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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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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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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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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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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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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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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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