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.
ALBERT CAMUSIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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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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The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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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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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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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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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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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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