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Albert Camus Quotes

"Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend.""There is no sun without shadow and it is essential to know the night""Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question""We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.""Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.""Humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves their existence is not absurd.""To create is to live twice.""Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.""Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.""Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.""The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind""There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.""Life is the sum of all your choices.""One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.""The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance.""There is scarcely any passion without struggle.""A free press can of course be good or bad, but it is certain that without freedom it will never be anything but bad.""In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.""Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.""Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."