What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
ALBERT CAMUSNothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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I opened myself to the gentle 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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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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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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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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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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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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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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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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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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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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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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