More quotes by Albert Camus

"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"
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
"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."
"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."
"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."