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Albert Camus Quotes

"Humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves their existence is not absurd.""To create is to live twice.""Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.""Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.""There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn""In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer""Live to the point of tears""Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better""The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion""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""Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal""Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken""The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself""But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself""Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth""Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower""The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.""To be happy we must not be too concerned with others""Here are some additional famous quotes by Albert Camus:""Hope is a real risk that must be run"