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
existentialism
This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in.
shame
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
realization life-is absurd
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
one-love wells
Why must one love rarely to love well?
trust home heart
I knew a pure heart who refused tot be mistrustful.... He had written at his doorstep: "From wherever you are, enter and be welcome". Who do you think responded to this lovely invitation? The militia, who made themselves at home and gutted him.
fog sea land
I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
drinking sadness long
I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.
existentialism stranger
Everything is true, and nothing is true!
helping-others people world
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
paradise earth gender
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
integrity law justice
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
possession humans human-beings
No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
self-worth men greek
Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.
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.