A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.
Albert CamusThis absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator.
Albert CamusCreating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
Albert CamusTags: art flowers wallpaper creating anxiety marcel-proust
Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either.
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Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.
Albert CamusThe reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.
Albert CamusTags: god fyodor-dostoevsky the-possessed kirilov
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.
Albert CamusA man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Albert CamusTags: money happiness pursuit-of-happiness
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
Albert CamusSince we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
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