The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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We are all special cases.
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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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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.
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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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