I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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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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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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Live to the point of tears.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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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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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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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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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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