But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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More Quotes from Albert Camus
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.