In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
ALBERT CAMUSIf something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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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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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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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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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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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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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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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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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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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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