Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUSFiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
ALBERT CAMUSA 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.
ALBERT CAMUSEvery act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
ALBERT CAMUSThe literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSI know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
ALBERT CAMUSWhen the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
ALBERT CAMUSAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
ALBERT CAMUSI opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
ALBERT CAMUSYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
ALBERT CAMUSI may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
ALBERT CAMUSReal generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
ALBERT CAMUSI love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
ALBERT CAMUSI do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
ALBERT CAMUSSince we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
ALBERT CAMUSBlessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
ALBERT CAMUSIntegrity has no need of rules.
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