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
way done wells
I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?
feelings way rebellion
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
money being-free way
Having money is a way of being free of money.
men hands way
On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
feelings way needs
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.
stupidity way knack
stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves
power way pope
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
intellectual way west
It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.
success way looks
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
freedom way normal
After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.
stupid stupidity way
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
greatness trying way
Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
desire way facts
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...
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.