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
eye fate people
There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye
inspirational motivational new-year
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.
life mean cities
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
inspirational order effort
The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.
order solitude world
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
law punishment intuition
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
order essentials should
Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
law democracy minorities
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
passion compassion grows
To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.
love men precious-stones
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
excess disappear misers
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
character writing may
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
suicide suicidal needs
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
death punishment dying
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.