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.
ALBERT CAMUSPeople hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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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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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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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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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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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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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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