And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
ALBERT CAMUSA 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.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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 would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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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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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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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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