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
moments life-time carrie
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
art moving adventure
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
christian heart men
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.
brother stars night
In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
existentialism
This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
believe two people
People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.
fate men joy
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.
people happiness-and-love century
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
passion happiness-and-love moments
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
loss love-is rights
The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.
joy feelings happiness-and-love
For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
betrayal love-is happiness-and-love
Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
happiness-and-love tragedy individual
When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
laughing cards energy
I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.