Albert Camus was a French Nobel Prize winning author, journalist, and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism.
♦ 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 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
♦ 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
♦ I know of only one duty, and that is to love - Albert Camus
♦ In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer - 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
♦ Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower - Albert Camus
♦ Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal - Albert Camus
♦ A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession - Albert Camus
♦ But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus
♦ At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things - Albert Camus
♦ An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself - 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
♦ 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 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
♦ Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken - Albert Camus
♦ A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world - Albert Camus
♦ The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor - 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
♦ Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear - 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
♦ Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day - Albert Camus
♦ The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy - Albert Camus
♦ You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question - 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
