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
sensible stills
Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.
friday monday sleep
It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.
paradise earth gender
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
accepting made incapable
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
rejection unity artistic-creation
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.
intelligence gains chains
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.
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.
love-life despair no-love
There is no love of life without despair of life.
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.
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.