Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
ALBERT CAMUSHappiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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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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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
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Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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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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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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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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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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