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
spring winter endless
Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.
life courage lying
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
army artist combat
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
giving choices doe
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
path discovering recognise
One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
artist judging community
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
art sea giving
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
believe cutting men
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
thinking
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined.
art hipster needs
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
love life deceived-us
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
taxation citizens indirect
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
love principles impossible
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
inspirational life men
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.