Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
ALBERT CAMUSWhat made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
More Albert Camus Quotes
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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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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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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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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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 rebel; therefore I exist.
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It is better to burn than to disappear.
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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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Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.
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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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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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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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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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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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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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