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Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
You cannot create experience.
You must undergo it.
- Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people
think they can be happy without money.
- Albert Camus
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.
- Albert Camus
Without work, all life goes rotten.
But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there
was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
- Albert Camus
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.
- Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself,
and dies of all others.
- Albert Camus
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- Albert Camus
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Albert Camus
Men must live and create.
Live to the point of tears.
- Albert Camus
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and
die to find out there isn't,
than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
- Albert Camus
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair,
offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity
that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
- Albert Camus
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
A guilty conscience needs to confess.
A work of art is a confession.
- Albert Camus
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
- Albert Camus
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes
only if you generously consent to share them.
- Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
- Albert Camus
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
Great works are often born on a street corner or in
a restaurant's revolving door.
- Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience.
Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer
'yes' without having asked any clear question.
- Albert Camus
The society based on production is only productive,
not creative.
- Albert Camus
Integrity has no need of rules.
- Albert Camus
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its
train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
- Albert Camus
Truth, like light, blinds.
Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight
that enhances every object.
- Albert Camus
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
- Albert Camus
After all manner of professors have done their best for us,
the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- Albert Camus
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to
our world in the name of revolution have become,
in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
- Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste
for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Albert Camus
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
- Albert Camus
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
- Albert Camus
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this
desire will dictate all his actions.
- Albert Camus
We continue to shape our personality all our life.
If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
- Albert Camus
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
- Albert Camus
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them.
All they really want is to be maintained in the good
opinion they have of themselves.
- Albert Camus
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom:
therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
- Albert Camus
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
- Albert Camus
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only
if you generously consent to share them.
- Albert Camus
Some people talk in their sleep.
Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
- Albert Camus
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -
and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
- Albert Camus
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love -
first to their advantage,
then to their disadvantage.
- Albert Camus
A free press can, of course, be good or bad,
but, most certainly without freedom,
the press will never be anything but bad.
- Albert Camus
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
- Albert Camus
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
- Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous
energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus
What the world requires of the Christians is that they
should continue to be Christians.
- Albert Camus
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without
becoming a principle of evil.
- Albert Camus
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
- Albert Camus
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
In that race which daily hastens us towards death,
the body maintains its irreparable lead.
- Albert Camus
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone,
without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- Albert Camus
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
- Albert Camus
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
- Albert Camus
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today,
could justify non-violence.
- Albert Camus
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart
of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
- Albert Camus
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage,
and profound indifference.
- Albert Camus
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
- Albert Camus
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
- Albert Camus
Men are convinced of your arguments,
your sincerity,
and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
- Albert Camus
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
- Albert Camus
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend.
Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
- Albert Camus
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile.
And now we realize that we know where it lives...
inside ourselves.
- Albert Camus
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
- Albert Camus
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