“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend”
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
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“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.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
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“Live to the point of tears.”
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“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s somet...”
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
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“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
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“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
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“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
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“I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.”
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“The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
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“Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.”
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