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#1

“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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#2

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

tags: humanity, life, mankind, mortality

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#3

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

tags: attributed-no-source

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#4

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

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#5

“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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#6

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

tags: introspection, retreat, solitude

1926 likes

#7

“At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.”
― Camus/Albert

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#8

“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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#9

“Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

tags: independence, sarcasm

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#10

“There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

tags: happiness, love

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#11

“A true masterpiece does not tell everything.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

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#12

“My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

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#13

“People always think that a suicide is commited for one reason. But it is perfectly possible to commit a suicide for two reasons.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951

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#14

“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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#15

“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

#16

“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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#17

“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: emotion

713 likes

#18

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

tags: philosophical

609 likes

#19

“We are all born mad, some remain so”
― Albert Camus

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#20

“Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: desire, men

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#21

“ما أقسى أن يعيش الإنسان فقط مع ما يعرف ويتذكر، محروما مما يرجو ويتأمل”
― ألبير كامو

tags: الإنسان, الحرمان, الحياة, العيش, القسوة

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#22

“إن النفس المصممة بالرغم من كل شيء ، تستطيع أن تدبر أمورها دائماً .”
― ألبير كامو, أسطورة سيزيف

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#23

“Life is a sum of all your choices".

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

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#24

“Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

170 likes

#26

“If you don't want to cook, you should try throwing a dish.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin

tags: humor-inspirational

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#28

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

tags: art, inspirational, love, redemption, sadness

4280 likes

#29

“I am the best person in the universe.”
― Kendrick Nguyen

tags: inspirational-quotes

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