At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
ALBERT CAMUSI realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Live to the point of tears.
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Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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