For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
ALBERT CAMUSThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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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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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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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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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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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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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Live to the point of tears.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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