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.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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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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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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