What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
ALBERT CAMUSI 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.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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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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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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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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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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