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
money being-free way
Having money is a way of being free of money.
able conscious decided
Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
art divorce ideas
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.
sky feelings harmony
I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
sea luxury poverty
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
men want might
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
rejection unity artistic-creation
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
art simplicity scales
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
sea shore casts
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
accepting made incapable
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
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.
integrity law justice
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
honesty speak quiver
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
believe doubt fields
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.