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.
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We 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.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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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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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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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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