To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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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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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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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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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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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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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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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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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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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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 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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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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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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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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