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.
ALBERT CAMUSWe are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
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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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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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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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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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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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