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Albert Camus
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
“Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning ...
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are lookin...
“Live to the point of tears.”
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to ...
“Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don'...
“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also...
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I a...
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when t...
“Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a gre...
“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick p...
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolenc...
“Peace is the only battle worth waging.”
“I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you contin...
