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.
ALBERT CAMUSIf 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.
ALBERT CAMUSThe truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
ALBERT CAMUSWe get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
ALBERT CAMUSBut sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSDon’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
ALBERT CAMUSWe are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
ALBERT CAMUSDon’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
ALBERT CAMUSEvery act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
ALBERT CAMUSNobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
ALBERT CAMUSSome people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
ALBERT CAMUSThere is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
ALBERT CAMUSThe purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
ALBERT CAMUSMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
ALBERT CAMUSPeace is the only battle worth waging.
ALBERT CAMUSThe evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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