Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
ALBERT CAMUSEvery act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.
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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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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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.
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Live to the point of tears.
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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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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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