But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
ALBERT CAMUSIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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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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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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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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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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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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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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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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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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