The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUSThe struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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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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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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If 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.
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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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