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
solitude violence working-conditions
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
work rotten stifling
Without work all life goes rotten.
work
Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
sunday stranger back-to-work
It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.
work punishment hopeless
There is no more futile punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
inspirational work passion
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
secret faces great-work
Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and that is its whole secret.
art art-is works-of-art
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
art work simple
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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
expecting sacrifice
To give all, to sacrifice all without expecting to get anything inreturn--this is love.C'est cela l'amour, tout donner, tout sacrifier sans espoir de retour.