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
writing novelists philosopher
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments.
writing suffering today
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
writing immoral
It is immoral not to tell.
art writing certain
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
writing stronger needs
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
lying writing commitment
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.
character writing may
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
wall writing experience-yourself
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
writing needs genius
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
writing writers-and-writing reader
Those who write clearly have readers.
writing civilization purpose
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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.
french-philosopher great last shall takes wait
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
great judgement last secret shall takes wait
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.