Albert Camus Quotes

"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"

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

"I know of only one duty, and that is to love."

"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."

"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."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

"Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?"

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

"Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?"

"Live to the point of tears."

"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."

"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."

"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."

"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?"This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence"really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."