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
ALBERT CAMUSAfter awhile you could get used to anything.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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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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I love life – that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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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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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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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 most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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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 struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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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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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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We are all special cases.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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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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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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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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There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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