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.
ALBERT CAMUSMan is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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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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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.
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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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The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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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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I had only a little time left and I didn’t want to waste it on God.
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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