Albert Camus Quotes About Life
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
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The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
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In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
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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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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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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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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. 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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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
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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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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
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We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
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