He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
ALBERT CAMUSI don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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We are all special cases.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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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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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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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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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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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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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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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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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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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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