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
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.
inspirational charming-smile asking
Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.
inspirational life waiting
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
friendship honesty believe
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
men hands birth-defects
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
struggle heart men
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.