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
both divide finally hide lie lies love people prefer rather three
You see, a person of my acquaintance used to divide people into three categories: those who would prefer to have nothing to hide than have to lie, those who would rather lie than have nothing to hide, and finally those who love both lies and secrets.
autumn flower leaf second spring
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower
advantage alibi conscience further giving good particular people provides servants tyranny welfare
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience
hides sheer style
Style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema
certainty chance course free freedom good press whereas
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
disgust loved might reason
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
against consists despairing grandeur hoping implacable life perhaps sin
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life
against consists grandeur hoping implacable life sin
If there is sin against life, it consists in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
against french-philosopher grandeur hoping implacable life sin
If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
happens last wait
I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
barely books boredom came cities cling gestures human realm remembered surface thus women words
Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate - for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.
depths finally invincible learned summer winter
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer
depth finally invincible lay learned winter within
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible summer.
addiction aware feet hides imply none sheer silk underwear
I am well aware that an addiction to silk underwear does not necessarily imply that one's feet are dirty. None the less, style, like sheer silk, too often hides eczema.