What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
ALBERT CAMUSI rebel; therefore I exist.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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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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A 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.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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