100+ Albert Camus Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
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Humanity Love
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Courage Himself Kill Live Survival
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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Absolute Inspirational Interest Success
The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.
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Mind Need Vulgar
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Beautiful Death Life Melancholy
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Funny Lecture People Sleeping
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Away Distance Occasion Understand World
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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Condition Coward Despair Hope Humanity
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
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Battle One Liner Peace Worth
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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Chance Freedom Inspirational One Liner Peace
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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Evil Goodness Ignorance Intention Understanding World
Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.
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Die Life
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Depth Learning Strength Summer Winter
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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Inspirational One Liner Passion Scare Struggle
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
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Decide Kill Life Live Yourself
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
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Doubt Fear Life Love Romance Ugly
Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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Admit Freedom Himself Man Prey Truth
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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Beat Head Heart Imagination Moment
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Absurd Earth Happiness Inseparable Life
After awhile you could get used to anything.
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Deep Healing Life One Liner Pain
And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
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Door Happiness Knock Sad Time
Integrity has no need of rules.
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Integrity One Liner Rules
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
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Appeal Essence Innocence Nostalgia Rebellion Truth
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Civilization Destroy Life Winter Writing
We are all special cases.
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Case Inspirational One Liner Special
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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Autumn Flower Hope Inspirational Leaf Spring

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