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092621b
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Don't walk in front of me... I may not follow
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friends
friendship
misattributed-albert-camus
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Albert Camus |
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f3dbf7c
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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Albert Camus |
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I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
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Albert Camus |
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2badbae
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When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
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Albert Camus |
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f65764f
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
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present
future
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Albert Camus |
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48dad66
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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Albert Camus |
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348fe9e
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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
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relationships
loyalty
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Albert Camus |
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aa204b4
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O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.
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winter
summer
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Albert Camus |
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7959b3b
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [ ]"
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solitude
retreat
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Albert Camus |
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0d6990e
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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
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Albert Camus |
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663920a
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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
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religion
god
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Albert Camus |
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7fb0a87
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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
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Albert Camus |
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022211f
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I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
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Albert Camus |
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52dd236
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I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
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compassion
religion
life
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Albert Camus |
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b320315
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There is not love of life without despair about life.
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Albert Camus |
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0d962fb
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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honesty
truth
seeking
existentialism
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Albert Camus |
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ba47741
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Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
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Albert Camus |
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0219e6e
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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
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truth
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Albert Camus |
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237af71
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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humor
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Albert Camus |
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7281db1
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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rebellion
revolt
innocence
nostalgia
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Albert Camus |
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6ad3a96
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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death
intelligence
scholars
thinkers
execution
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Albert Camus |
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13c8135
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There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
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struggle
passion
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Albert Camus |
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32d2f8c
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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. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was tha..
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Albert Camus |
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9e68659
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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
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living
death
life
dying
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Albert Camus |
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cb06671
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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.
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suffering
skepticism
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Albert Camus |
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3087b8c
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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
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Albert Camus |
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ef6f5ee
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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time b..
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solitude
meaning
sadness
privacy
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Albert Camus |
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a7e9585
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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Albert Camus |
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35def40
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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."
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Albert Camus |
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And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
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Albert Camus |
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1ac52b5
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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habits
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Albert Camus |
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e402a64
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I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?
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Albert Camus |
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b2f3a79
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I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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Albert Camus |
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fea311a
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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
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Albert Camus |
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She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she laughed I wanted her again. A minute later she asked me if I loved her. I told her it didn't mean anything but that I didn't think so. She looked sad. But as we were fixing lunch, and for no apparent reason, she laughed in such a way that I kissed her.
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Albert Camus |
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506cb76
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Nothing in life is worth,
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love
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Albert Camus |
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c3fab14
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I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
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humor
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Albert Camus |
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c5a1e00
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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.
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Albert Camus |
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70788dc
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Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful t..
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truth
stories
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Albert Camus |
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b9abd44
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But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
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humanism
genuine
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Albert Camus |
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cee62a1
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Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
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life
laziness
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Albert Camus |
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add000f
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I love life - that's my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
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Albert Camus |
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290d233
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I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
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Albert Camus |
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c5968c1
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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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hopelessness
suicide
hope
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Albert Camus |