The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
ALBERT CAMUSI’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
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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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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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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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn’t capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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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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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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