Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUSNothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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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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Live to the point of tears.
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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 need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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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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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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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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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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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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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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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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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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