Albert Camus

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."

"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."

"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it."

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

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

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

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

"Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement."

"Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it."

"No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition."

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

"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."

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

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

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

"I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."

"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."

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

"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."

"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."