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
stars night dry
In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
life real weakness
I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
secret tears looks
When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
children philosophy judging
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
stranger said no-hope
Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.
art design world
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
turning-your-back life-is ifs
Nothing in life is worth, turning your back on, if you love it.
strange rebellion form
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
sometimes
But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
life want ifs
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
art culture creation
...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
appreciation teacher special
We are all special cases.
life art freedom
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
world impossible sisyphus
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.