Albert Camus Quotes
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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All healthy men have thought of their own suicide.
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A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
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Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
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So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.
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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.