Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
ALBERT CAMUSSeeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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We are all special cases.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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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 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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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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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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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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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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