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.
ALBERT CAMUSI rebel; therefore I exist.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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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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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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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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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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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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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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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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