I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
ALBERT CAMUSFor who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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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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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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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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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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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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Integrity has no need of rules.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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