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.
death thinking race
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
silence ears world
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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.
memories men winning
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.
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.
judging breathe judgment
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
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.
divorce men absurdity-of-life
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.
psychology ideology humans
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.