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.
ALBERT CAMUSI rebel; therefore I exist.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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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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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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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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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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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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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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