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 CAMUSHappiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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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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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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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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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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