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.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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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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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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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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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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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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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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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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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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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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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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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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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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