The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
ALBERT CAMUSBut sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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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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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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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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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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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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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 should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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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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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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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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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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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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