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#1

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

tags: attributed-no-source

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#2

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

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#3

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

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#4

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

tags: civilization, writers, writing

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#5

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

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#6

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

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#7

“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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#8

“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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#9

“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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#10

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
― Albert Camus

tags: albert-camus, lecture, philosophy, sleep

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#11

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, meaning-of-life, suicide, witty

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#12

“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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#13

“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#14

“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: existentialism

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#15

“I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

tags: ache, albert-camus, camus, heart, love, pain

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#16

“Life is a sum of all your choices".

So, what are you doing today?”
― Albert Camus

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#17

“We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#18

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
― Albert Camus

tags: courage, cowardice, philosophy

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#19

“The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.”
― Albert Camus

tags: albert-camus, camus

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#20

“What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.”
― Albert Camus

tags: life, love, romance

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#21

“If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”
― Albert Camus

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#22

“There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

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#23

“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#24

“People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

tags: love, old-age

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#25

“My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.”
― Albert Camus

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#26

“It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.”
― Albert Camus

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#27

“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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#28

“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: explanations, gazing, inexplicability, nonconformist, nonfconformism, quietness, silence, smoking

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#29

“But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#30

“One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: camus, immortality, the-fall

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