The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSThe struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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 had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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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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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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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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Live to the point of tears.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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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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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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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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We are all special cases.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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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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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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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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