For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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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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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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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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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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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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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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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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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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Live to the point of tears.
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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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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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