Quotes About Camus

A writer who acts as public conscience needs extraordinary nerve and fine instincts, like a boxer. After a time, these instincts inevitably falter. He also needs to be emotionally tough. Camus was not that tough, not tough in the way that Sartre is.

Imaginar que tiene en mente (Vargas Llosa) a Camus ( o ha olvidado que lo tuvo en mente) al contestar a las preguntas de El Urogallo en 1970 y, finalmente, al escribir una de sus grandes obras de crítica literaria, el libro que da forma actual y concreta a la idea del novelista como suplantado de Dios: Historia de un deicidio.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

Just read this fabulous screenplay. A remake of Camus's The Stranger with Meursault as a bi break-dancing punk rocker. Randy showed it to me. I loved it. Randy thinks basically unfilmable and that filming an orange rolling around a parking lot for three hours would draw a bigger audience.

Camus had said in his 'Carnets' that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection - that our lives, too, are unclosed and contingent - do we approach maturity. Alice felt immature. She felt that she was a spy in the cold.

What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?" "Babel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel's The Red Cavalry and Camus's The Stranger.

My foundation in acting has been serious theatre: Albert Camus, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare. It's really the best medium to learn the craft.

Dissonance is disquieting because to hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and, as Albert Camus observed, we are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd. At the heart of it, Festinger's theory is about how people strive to make sense out of contradictory ideas and lead lives that are, at least in their own minds, consistent and meaningful.

Real generosity toward the future," as Camus famously put it, "lies in giving all to the present.

It seemed to me that a solution must be found. Here, my natural optimism was to my advantage. For when I read Sartre or Camus or Graham Greene, I experienced a temperamental rejection of their pessimism. I suspected that their ultimate picture might be distorted by a certain self-pity or lack of discipline—or, in the case of Greene, by a certain congenital lack of vitality. I suspected that if the problem left them defeated, it was because they had not attacked it hard enough.

There is always a social explanation for what we see in art," Albert Camus said in 1947. "Only it doesn't explain anything important.

As I face new water, I always ask myself if I ought to fish with a nymph or not. Presumably you don't walk directly into rising trout. Camus said that the only serious question is whether or not to commit suicide. This is rather like the nymph question. It takes weight, a weighted fly, split shot. Casting becomes a matter of spitting this mess out and being orderly about it.

She become moody and depressed. She started wearing black and listening to the Smiths and reading Camus in the original whatever. Her eyes became interestingly pouchy and sunken.

There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side of his work, about Algeria, the heat and so on.

Sartre and Camus were only two of the many thinkers about politics who, being gentiles, could stay in Paris and think about politics there if they chose. It was a dubious privilege.

Camus (Albert) 'The welfare and safety of the people is always the alibi of the tyrant.

The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed

These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.

Maar als je op zoek bent naar de zin van het leven zul je nooit leven,' zei hij wijs. (Camus)

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You got me.

The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness. —Albert Camus

Camus had often told friends that nothing was more scandalous than the death of a child, and nothing more absurd than to die in a car accident.

When Camus's mother asked him what he wanted as a wedding gift, he replied, "A dozen pairs of white socks.

LE MYTHE DE SISYPHE is dense, epigrammatic, and of a deceptive clarity. It looks like a short essay, without technical jargon, cryptic sometimes to a fault. In it, Camus spoke of the world, history, and of his life.