The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSDon’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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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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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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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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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 realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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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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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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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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