Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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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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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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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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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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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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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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A person’s life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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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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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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