A 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 CAMUSWe are all special cases.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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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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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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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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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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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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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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