I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
ALBERT CAMUSI may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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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 absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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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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Integrity has no need of rules.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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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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Live to the point of tears.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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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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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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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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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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