Albert Camus Quotes

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

Friendship, Friend, May

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

Life, Happiness, Happy

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

Religion, Life, God

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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

Nature, Learned, Winter

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

Energy, Nobody, Normal

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

Free, Become, Act

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

Art, Work, Guilty

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

Happiness, Life, Simple

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

Work, Great, Art

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Nature, Spring, Flower

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

Far, Accept, Himself

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

Moving On, Blessed, Broken

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

Intelligence, Mind, Someone

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

Beauty, Time, Whole

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus

Ethics, Wild, Beast

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

Good, Friends, Opinion

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus

Respect, Fear, Nothing

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

Great, Thoughts, Often

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus

Getting, Question, Answer

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

Teacher, Best, Knowledge

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.
Albert Camus

Good, Ignorance, Evil

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

Rock, Thought, Reason

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

Freedom, Nothing, Chance

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
Albert Camus

Place, Wait, Last

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 7, 1913

Died: January 4, 1960

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