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
art would-be needs
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
war men imagination
But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.
life hate war
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
poverty firsts family-first
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
life happiness summer
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
life order judging
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
opportunity choices life-is
Life is the sum of your choices.
lying fiction telling-the-truth
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
sleep insomnia people
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
punishment death-penalty murder
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
soul suffering taste
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
gratitude night shadow
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
beautiful art want
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
made perceive meetings
If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.