Albert Camus Quotes

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Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

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Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
- Albert Camus

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

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

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

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

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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
- Albert Camus

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Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non violence.
- Albert Camus

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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
- Albert Camus

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

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In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery is.
- Albert Camus

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Wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
- Albert Camus

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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
- Albert Camus

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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
- Albert Camus

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An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
- Albert Camus

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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
- Albert Camus

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Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
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Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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