Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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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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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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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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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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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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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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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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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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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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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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