阿尔贝·加缪是法国小说家、哲学家、戏剧家、评论家，存在主义文学领军人物，“荒诞哲学”的代表。他于1957年获得诺贝尔文学奖，1960年不幸遭遇车祸英年早逝，年仅47岁。他笔下的名言蕴含着哲学家对人生的严肃思考和艺术家的强烈激情。
下面是阿尔贝·加缪的部分英文名言：
1、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.
2、I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
3、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.
4、In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
5、A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
6、An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
7、At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
8、A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
9、Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
10、Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
11、A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
12、Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
13、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.
14、The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
15、I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
16、Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
17、Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
18、But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
19、All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
20、The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.