At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
ALBERT CAMUSThe truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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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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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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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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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 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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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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We are all special cases.
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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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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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