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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#3

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, living

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“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#5

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source

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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus

tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable

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#7

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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#8

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

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#9

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

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#10

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing

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#11

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― Albert Camus

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#12

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
― Albert Camus

tags: judgement, life, religion

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#13

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

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#14

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

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#15

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

tags: atheism, god, religion

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#16

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

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#17

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

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#18

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

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“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: afterlife, compassion, life, religion

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#20

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

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#21

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: philosophy, truth

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#22

“I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
― Albert Camus

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#23

“You can't create experience, you undergo it.”
― Albert Camus

tags: contemporary-romance

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#24

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners

tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers

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#25

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#26

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: betrayal, loyalty, relationships

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#27

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
― Albert Camus

tags: idleness, inaction, mediocrity

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#28

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

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#29

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
― Albert Camus

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#30

“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
― Albert Camus

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