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
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.
murder exhausting
Murder is terribly exhausting.
fighting history prestige
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
history finals analysis
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
philosophical men obscurity
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
attitude fighting giving
Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.
destiny emotion individual
No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.