Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 November 1913
CountryFrance
men free-man
Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.
men anxious wander
Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
art
Without freedom there is no art.
forgiveness republic impossible
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
thinking people normal
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.
work rotten stifling
Without work all life goes rotten.
paradise earth gender
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
elements unreality abstraction
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
profound shapes becoming
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
heart men divinity
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
relationship money
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
writing novelists philosopher
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
sleep men speaks-out
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
solitude poverty values
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.