Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
ALBERT CAMUSIn order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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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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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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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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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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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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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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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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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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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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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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