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“And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”
― Albert Camus

“And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience”
― Albert Camus

“We rarely confide in those who are better than we. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen.”
― Albert Camus

“C'est que je n'ai jamais grand chose à dire. Alors je me tais.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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

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

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
― Albert Camus

“But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
― Albert Camus