"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."
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Albert Camus
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Quotes by Albert Camus
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."
"Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions."
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
"Live to the point of tears."
"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."
"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."
"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."
"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."
"If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. ~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt)"
"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."
"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."
"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."