We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
ALBERT CAMUSToday we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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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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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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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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We 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.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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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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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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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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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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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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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Don’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.
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