“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
— Albert Camus
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“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.”
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.”
“I rebel; therefore I exist.”
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
“Life is the sum of your choices.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
“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. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
“Life should be lived to the point of tears.”
“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.”
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.”
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
“Yes, everything is simple. It’s people who complicate things.”
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.”
“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”
“Find your happiness in yourself.”
“Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it’s meaningless.”
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
“The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.”
“We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream, and we won’t let this world die without a fight.”
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
“For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.”
“I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.”
“There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.”
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
“One cannot be a part-time nihilist.”
“There is no shame in preferring happiness.”
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
“Integrity has no need of rules.”
“Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.”
“But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”
“The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.”
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