I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
ALBERT CAMUSBut sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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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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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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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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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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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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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 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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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