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
consent forgiven french-philosopher happiness share successes
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
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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.
happiness heart firsts
For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
suffering eternal-happiness moments
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
happiness strong passionate
There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
happiness money taken
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
happiness spring mistake
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Edipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
people happiness-and-love century
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
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For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.
betrayal love-is happiness-and-love
Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.
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When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.
happiness-and-love world sacred
I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.
happiness choices desire
Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.