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
relationship loyalty betrayal
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
suicide sacrifice men
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!
love intelligent dull
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
easier knows
It is easier to kill what we do not know.
sea water silence
We [Raymond and Meursault] stared at each other without blinking, and everything came to a stop there between the sea, the sand, and the sun, and the double silence of the flute and the water. It was then that I realized that you could either shoot or not shoot.
greatness trying way
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
time want littles
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
limits reason absurd
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
life despair habit
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
war stupid long
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
relationship positive future
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
believe men track
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
time long take-time
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
ends feels
To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end.