The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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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They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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Live to the point of tears.
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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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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
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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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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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