At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
ALBERT CAMUSI know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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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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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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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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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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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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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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