For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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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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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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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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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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