He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUSAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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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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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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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.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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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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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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