It is better to burn than to disappear.
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.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Live to the point of tears.
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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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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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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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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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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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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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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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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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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 literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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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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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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