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
greatness echoes humanity
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
philosophical men obscurity
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
destiny people fiction
What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?
passion light feelings
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate.
lying divorce elements
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
judging breathe judgment
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
desert lasts reason
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
integrity men good-man
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
memories men winning
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
pestilence duration truth-is
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
divorce men absurdity-of-life
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
psychology ideology humans
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
men years two
To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
destiny emotion individual
No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.