Quotes and Sayings About Life
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
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Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
-- Albert Camus -
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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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.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
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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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Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
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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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I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.
-- Albert Camus -
My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.
-- Albert Camus -
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The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
-- Albert CamusSource : Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
-- Albert Camus