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
existentialism stranger
Everything is true, and nothing is true!
existentialism
This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
life boredom existential
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
life rebel existentialism
I rebel; therefore I exist.
mean feelings existential
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
life world existentialism
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
struggle passion existentialism
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
falling-in-love despair existentialism
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
future historians modern sentence single suffice
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
french-philosopher great last shall takes wait
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
great judgement last secret shall takes wait
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.
itself mind watches whose
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself
becoming either ends heretic oppressor revolution
Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic
becoming either ends french-philosopher oppressor
Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.