Albert Camus, 1913-1960. French novelist, essayist, and playwright best known for novels, such as The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), concern the absurdity of the human condition. He won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.
Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked or made use of. As for being understood- never!
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it- just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore.
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel Prize winner, is described by many a mind as a literary genius whose extraordinary talent matches that of Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Gorky. Biography, quotes, photos, news articles, books and reviews.
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