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
wall writing experience-yourself
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
unity kind rebellion
Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.
order idealism live-and-let-live
We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.
struggle reality years
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.
atheist believe religion
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
football morality obligation
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
death peace heart
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
art struggle artist
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
real passion century
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
self water trying
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
political cynical democracy
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
men kind human-nature
A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.
change fate destiny
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
practice order generosity
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.