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
lay love loves loving marry stop woman
To marry a woman who you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first
unhappy lovers cherish
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
self-love debauchery lovers
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
love-life despair no-love
There is no love of life without despair of life.
love desire possession
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
bending love-myself break
One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.
love luck misfortunes
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
love-is confession acts-of-love
The act of love is a confession.
people normal loved-ones
At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
waiting doubt our-love
No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.
honesty mistress lovers
Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.
selfish love-is vanity
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
struggle love-is long
Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.
world one-love
Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.