What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
ALBERT CAMUSThere is not love of life without despair about life.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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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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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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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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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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