Albert Camus. Anniversary of his birth. 20 chosen phrases

Albert Camus He was a French novelist, playwright, essayist, philosopher, and journalist who was born in 1913 in Algeria. His best known work was Abroad. He is one of the creators of the so-called philosophy of the absurd.

He had the referents of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, with his theory of German existentialism. In World War II, during the German occupation, was with the French Resistance which led him to relate to libertarian movements. He also published plays as the misunderstanding y Caligula. When his career was already consolidated in 1957 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. These are 20 chosen phrases of his work to remember him.

Albert Camus — 20 sentences

1. We acquire the habit of living before the habit of thinking.
2. At the beginning of catastrophes, and when they are over, there is always some rhetoric. In the first case, the custom has not yet been lost; in the second, it has recovered. It is at the very moment of misfortune that one gets used to the truth.
3. One day the stupid border that separates our two territories (France and Italy) which, together with Spain, form a nation, will fall.
4. Sometimes I think about what future historians will say about us. A single sentence will suffice to define modern man: he fornicated and read newspapers.
5. Despite rationalist and even Marxist illusions, the entire history of the world is the history of freedom.
6. At the beginning of catastrophes, and when they are over, there is always some rhetoric. In the first case, the custom has not yet been lost; in the second, it has recovered. It is at the very moment of misfortune that one gets used to the truth.
7. I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
8. Turn off the lights and poverty will be seen. But do not turn off the sun, which is what takes away the sadness of the poor.
9. Blessed is the heart that can bend because it will never break.
10. Every time a man in the world is chained, we are chained to him. Freedom must be for everyone or for no one.
11. I describe as stupid who is afraid to enjoy.
12. I understand what I touch, what resists me.
13. Any man, around any corner, can experience the sensation of absurdity, because everything is absurd.
14. How hard, how bitter it is to become a man.
15. Giving oneself has no meaning except if one possesses oneself.
16. Of the resistant is the last word.
17. Two men betrayed by the same woman are somewhat related.
18. The artist must always be with those who suffer history, not with those who make it.
19. Duty is what you expect of others.
20. Charm is the way to get the answer "yes" without asking a clear question.