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.
ALBERT CAMUSWe are all special cases.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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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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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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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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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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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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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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