When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
ALBERT CAMUSYou know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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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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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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We are all special cases.
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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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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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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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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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