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
trying absurd existence
Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd
poverty firsts family-first
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
inspirational courage philosophy
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
choices-made decisions-you-make today
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?
gratitude night shadow
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
happiness-and-love principles refuse
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
made perceive meetings
If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
soul suffering taste
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
falling-in-love despair existentialism
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
suffering unhappy happiness-and-love
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
memories roots shadow
Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
punishment death-penalty murder
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
love-is vanity two
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
desire way facts
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...