Albert Camus Legacy

Exploring the ideas of Albert Camus. The absurd, rebellion, freedom, and meaning.

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And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

[Albert Camus Legacy @camuslegacy]

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.

[Albert Camus Legacy @camuslegacy]

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

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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."

- Albert Camus

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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.

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The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.

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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

[Albert Camus Legacy @camuslegacy]

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

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The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

[Albert Camus Legacy @camuslegacy]

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth.

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But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

[Albert Camus Legacy @camuslegacy]

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.