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“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
-- Albert Camus

#Understanding #Experience
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
-- Albert Camus

#Suicide #Coffee #Optimistic
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
-- Albert Camus

#Wisdom #Peace #Jobs
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
-- Albert Camus

#Life #Gratitude #Real
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
-- Albert Camus

#Freedom #Badass #Bad Ass
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
-- Albert Camus

#Love #Life #Valentines Day
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
-- Albert Camus

#Funny #Positivity #Bad Ass
“She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.”
-- Albert Camus

#Heart #Waiting #Solitude
“Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.”
-- Albert Camus

#Memories #Roots #Shadow
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
-- Albert Camus

#Life #Order #People
“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.”
-- Albert Camus

#Happiness And Love #Principles #Refuse
“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”
-- Albert Camus

#Punishment #Death Penalty #Murder
“The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.”
-- Albert Camus

#Thinking #Reality #Ideas
“If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.”
-- Albert Camus

#Made #Perceive #Meetings
“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
-- Albert Camus

#Falling In Love #Despair #Existentialism
“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.”
-- Albert Camus

#Love #Friendship #Happy
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
-- Albert Camus

#Writing #Civilization #Purpose
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
-- Albert Camus

#Soul #Suffering #Too Much
“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, thereâ€™s something stronger â€“ something better, pushing right back.”
-- Albert Camus

#Life #Summer #Recovery
“I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Justice #Trying
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
-- Albert Camus

#Life #World #Indifference
“It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.”
-- Albert Camus

#Suffering #Unhappy #Happiness And Love
“I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.”
-- Albert Camus

#Beach #Wind #Waiting
“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 that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration.”
-- Albert Camus

#Lonely #Stars #Philosophy
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
-- Albert Camus

#Life #Dying #Causes
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
-- Albert Camus

#Inspirational #Happiness #Happy
“There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.”
-- Albert Camus

#Risk #Being Loved
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
-- Albert Camus

#Art #Work #Simple
“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
-- Albert Camus

#Solitude #Religion #Weight
“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

#Compassion #Ideas #People

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