Below are the best quotes we could find featuring albert camus about optimism.
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I was placed halfway between the misery and the sun. Poverty kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history was not everything.
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There are more things to admire in men than to despise.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger—something better, pushing right back.
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
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