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
awaken face faces fact glow happiness man mere night seen torn vocation
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.
destiny men faces
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
men feelings faces
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
effort code-of-ethics faces
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
simple long faces
Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.
secret faces great-work
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
faces youth minutes
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
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.
heart faces wonder
Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.
bells faces alarms
When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.
war struggle world
Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
men hair alive
He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
time police law-enforcement
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
dream country night
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.