Albert Camus
"Life is the sum of all your choices."
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
Albert Camus
"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."
Albert Camus
"Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles."
Albert Camus
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy."
Albert Camus
"I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement it takes place every day."
Albert Camus
"Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."
Albert Camus
"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."
Albert Camus
The Plague
"“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”"
Albert Camus
The Fall
"“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”"
Albert Camus
Neither Victims Nor Executioners
"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
"“My dear,In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that…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. Truly yours,Albert Camus”I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”"
Albert Camus
"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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