He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus
Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
Albert Camus
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.
Albert Camus
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
Albert Camus
Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
Albert Camus
If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up.
Albert Camus
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.
Albert Camus
Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.
Albert Camus
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
Albert Camus
There is not love of life without despair about life.
Albert Camus
I rebel; therefore I exist. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Albert Camus
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
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