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
sky lasts knows
I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
memories love-you heart
I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.
men despise admire
There are more things to admire in men then to despise.
eye skills people
Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.
lying liberty
Liberty is the right not to lie.
heart sublime indifference
He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe
melancholy
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
life mother yesterday
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
meaning-of-life would-be stills
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
reality use symbols
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.
truth firsts essentials
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
life no-hope incumbents
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
happiness lying joy
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
retirement mediocrity mediocre
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.