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
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.
morning fall heart
On certain mornings, as we turn a corner, an exquisite dew falls on our heart and then vanishes. But the freshness lingers, and this, always, is what the heart needs. The earth must have risen in just such a light the morning the world was born.
writing civilization purpose
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
life happiness happy
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
friendship kindness compassion
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
love thinking people
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.