Camus, Albert

"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers."

"Life is a sum of all your choices."

"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."

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

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

"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." - Notebooks

"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad." - Resistance, Rebellion and Death

"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - The Fall

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." - The Fall

"Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day." - The Fall

"The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to." - The Myth of Sisyphus

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." - The Myth of Sisyphus

"What is a rebel? A man who says no." - The Rebel