At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
ALBERT CAMUSThe absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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