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.
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Quotes by Albert Camus
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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 there was in me an invincible summer.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
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