Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960
1957 photo from the New York World-Telegram and Sun
Born: 7 November 1913, Mondovi, French Algeria
Died: 4 January 1960, Villeblevin, France
Camus' father died in battle the year after Camus' birth, but despite poverty Camus got most of a college education before tuberculosis forced him to drop out. He went to France as a journalist in World War II, joined the Resistance, and shared editing of Combat, an underground daily in Paris, with Jean-Paul Sartre, another of the main Existentialist philosophers. Received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, the first African-born winner and second-youngest (after Kipling).
Biography from Wikipedia and Nobel Foundation
Albert Camus quotes:
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- A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
- A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: Those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
- Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.
- All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
- An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
- Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
- Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day.
- Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Every act of rebelling expresses a nostalgia for innocence.
- Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
- Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
- Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
- Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.
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