In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
ALBERT CAMUSIf we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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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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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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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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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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I 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.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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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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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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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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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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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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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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