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
love separation pity
Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
love dream country
Indeed, men never know how to love. nothing satisfies them. All they know is to dream, to imagine new duties, to look for new countries and new homes. While we women, we know that we must hasten to love, to share the same bed, hold hands, and fear absence. When we women love, we dream of nothing.
love intelligent stupidity
[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
god men guilt
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
power hands order
What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?
prejudice marxism
Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.
memories humility shining
I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.
marriage numbers hair
Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.
friends sympathy heartache
What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?
hypocrisy house labels
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".
gratitude men law
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
believe justice people
If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
firsts murder habit
... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
morning health smoking
I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.