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“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

“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.”
― Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

“ad infinitum, and”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream

“beauty is often very relative, just as what is decent in Japan is indecent in Rome, and what is fashionable in Paris, is not fashionable in Pekin; and he saved himself the trouble of composing a long treatise on beauty.”
― Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

“The beauty which strikes the senses merely, the imagination, and that which is called "intelligence," is”
― Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

“It needs twenty years to lead man from the plant state in which he is within his mother's womb, and the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of the reason begins to appear. It has needed thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”
― Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

“To read him… is to find one’s way home… to everything within us that is fundamental and sane. —Thomas Mann”
― Centaur Editions, The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time

“The Bell: “The storm is approaching, it is impossible to be mistaken about that. The Revolutionaries and Reactionaries are at one about that. All men’s heads are going round; a weighty question of life and death lies heavy on men’s heads.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“What, indeed, had I done in all my thirty years of conscious life? Not only had I failed to live my life for the sake of all, but I had not even lived it for myself. I had lived as a parasite, and once I asked myself why I had lived, the answer I received was: for nothing.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Bashkirs.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“self-abnegation”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“No matter how old or how sick you are, how much or little you have done, your business in life not only isn’t finished, but hasn’t yet received its final, decisive meaning until your very last breath.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“for the heart, also, has its hunger,—”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables