“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”
— Albert Camus“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
— Albert Camus“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
— 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.”
— Albert Camus“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
— Albert Camus“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”
— Albert Camus“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
— Albert Camus“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
— Albert Camus“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”
— Albert Camus“There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.”
— Albert Camus“There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.”
— Albert Camus“Do you believe in God, doctor?No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.”
— Albert Camus“Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!”
— Albert Camus“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”
— Albert CamusIn the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
— Albert CamusSometimes, we suppress our emotions not out of weakness, but to protect ourselves from further pain.
— Albert Camus