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.
ALBERT CAMUSIf something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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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 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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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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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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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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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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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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