We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
ALBERT CAMUSMan is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Live to the point of tears.
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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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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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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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We are all special cases.
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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’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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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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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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