We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
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.
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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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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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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Integrity has no need of rules.
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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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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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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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I’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.
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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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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
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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 had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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You can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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