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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Albert Camus

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
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Energy Humanity Life People Realize
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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Heart Height Man One Liner Struggle
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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Ceased Consious Future Hope Inspirational Man
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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Heart Love Passion Person Presence Purpose
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
Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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Alive Life Night Sleep Sleeping Stars
The literal meaning of life is whatever you’re doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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Healing Kill Life Myself
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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Decide Kill Life Live Yourself
The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Mind Need Vulgar
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
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Courage Cowardice Lack Philosophy
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Future Life Live Present
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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Death Die Excellence Live Reason
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Civilization Destroy Life Winter Writing
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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Follow Friendship Lead Walking
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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Judgement Life Wait Wasted Time

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