Albert Camus

"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

"Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend"

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

"There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"

"There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide."

"We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."

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

"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."

"An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?"This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence"really means: "I cannot bear my doubts."

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

"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."

"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep"