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
relationship money
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
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.
profound shapes becoming
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
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.
divine-justice would-be sin
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
passion forgiving age
To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.
kind breaking-down mask
Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves.
love-life despair no-love
There is no love of life without despair of life.
cease
The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
integrity men good-man
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.
desert lasts reason
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
forgiveness republic impossible
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
pestilence duration truth-is
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.