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“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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

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

“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
― Albert Camus

“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
― Albert Camus

“I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
― Albert Camus

“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
― Albert Camus