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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Albert Camus

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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Forget Heart Memories Pain
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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Doubt Fear Life Love Romance Ugly
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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Condition Coward Despair Hope Humanity
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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Die Finding God Life Live
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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Face Feeling Man Street Strike
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.
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Dare Happiness Humanity Moments Suffering
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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Fiction One Liner Truth
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Depth Learning Strength Summer Winter
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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Admit Freedom Himself Man Prey Truth
A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
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Man One Liner Silence
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Civilization Destroy Life Winter Writing
Integrity has no need of rules.
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Integrity One Liner Rules
I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
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Dreamss People
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
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Coffee Kill Myself
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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Expectation Happiness Leadership Life Man
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Door Happiness Knock Sad Time

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