It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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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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 can’t create experience, you undergo it.
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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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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We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
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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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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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We are all born mad, some remain so.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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After awhile you could get used to anything.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
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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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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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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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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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Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
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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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I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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