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
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.
time knowing people
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
time style liberty
Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.
moments life-time carrie
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.
nihilism nihilist part-time
One cannot be a part-time nihilist.
time art needs
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
love beauty time
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
life time men
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
time want littles
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
time long take-time
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
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.
carry fight ourselves places task unleash within
We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
itself mind watches whose
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself
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