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“The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”

Albert Camus book A Happy Death

A Happy Death (1971)

“I don't want to be a genius — I have enough problems just trying to be a man.”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

Albert Camus book A Happy Death

A Happy Death (1971)

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate – for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.”

Albert Camus book The Fall

The Fall (1956)

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

“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.”

“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.”

Widely attributed, but likely apocryphal. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/08/23/friend/ Researchers have searched for this quote unsuccessfully in Camus' extant works. <br class="br">Disputed

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

Albert Camus book A Happy Death

A Happy Death (1971)

“At my age one's got to be sincere. Lying's too much effort.”

Albert Camus book The Plague

The Plague (1947)