Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
ALBERT CAMUSShould I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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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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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.
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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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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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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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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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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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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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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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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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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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We are all special cases.
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Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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