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
mean feelings existential
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
life wise wisdom
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
christian world should
What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
children numbers world
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
forever psychology logic
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
love silence one-day
After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
art work simple
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
innocence innocent persons
The innocent is the person who explains nothing
girl beach morning
Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.
facts well-known wells
It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.
moon world needs
This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.
cells desire faces
I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.
happiness encouragement goes-on
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
love sacrifice giving
That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3