The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSThe literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSEvery act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
ALBERT CAMUSWhere there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
ALBERT CAMUSMan is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
ALBERT CAMUSSome people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
ALBERT CAMUSIt is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
ALBERT CAMUSThe purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUSI had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
ALBERT CAMUSWe are all born mad, some remain so.
ALBERT CAMUSWe get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
ALBERT CAMUSAnd it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
ALBERT CAMUSToday we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
ALBERT CAMUSI like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
ALBERT CAMUSWhat is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
ALBERT CAMUSI’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.
ALBERT CAMUSShould I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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