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 CAMUSSometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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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 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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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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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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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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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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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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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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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We are all special cases.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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