And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
ALBERT CAMUSFiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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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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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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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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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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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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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 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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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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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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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