Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
ALBERT CAMUSThere is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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 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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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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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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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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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 should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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