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
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.
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.