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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Ned Vizzini
    “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide
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    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus
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    Albert Camus
    “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.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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    Albert Camus
    “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality
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    Albert Camus
    “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “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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    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable
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  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
    ― Albert Camus, The First Man
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  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “There is not love of life without despair about life.”
    ― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays
    tags: mortality
    1081 likes

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  • #15
    Albert Camus
    “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Albert Camus
    “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Albert Camus
    “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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    Albert Camus
    “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
    814 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: existentialism, passion, struggle
    893 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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    Albert Camus
    “I rebel; therefore I exist.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: existentialism, rebel
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    Albert Camus
    “Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
    tags: sincerity, skepticism, suffering
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    Albert Camus
    “What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
    ― Albert Camus
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    Albert Camus
    “Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: absurdism
    713 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “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.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: philosophy
    695 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: philosophical
    609 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: peace
    431 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life
    521 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
    tags: absurdism
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  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Nothing in life is worth,
    turning your back on,
    if you love it.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: life, love
    386 likes



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