Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
ALBERT CAMUSTo be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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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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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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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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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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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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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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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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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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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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Integrity has no need of rules.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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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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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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