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
ALBERT CAMUSI 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
ALBERT CAMUSPeople hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
ALBERT CAMUSI know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
ALBERT CAMUSIf absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
ALBERT CAMUSI love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
ALBERT CAMUSAlways go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
ALBERT CAMUSI’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 CAMUSHappiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
ALBERT CAMUSI may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
ALBERT CAMUSMan is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
ALBERT CAMUSMan is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
ALBERT CAMUSThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
ALBERT CAMUSTo feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
ALBERT CAMUSWhat is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
ALBERT CAMUSA man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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