If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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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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Don’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.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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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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