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Albert Camus Quotes Facts
Author: Blago Kirov

This book is an anthology of quotes from Albert Camus and selected facts about Albert Camus. Albert Camus was born in the small coastal town of Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913. Camus married in 1934 at age 21. His wife, Simone Hie, was the daughter of a wealthy ophthalmologist. She was also a morphine addict, and the marriage dissolved amidst mutual... more » infidelities after only two years. In 1934, he joined the Communist Party in reaction to the rise of fascism in Europe. Camus was expelled from the Communist Party for his support of Algerian nationalism. President George W. Bush reportedly read The Stranger while on vacation in 2006. Albert Camus preferred to write while standing (as did Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, and Virginia Woolf). The stripped-down prose style of The Stranger was influenced by American writers Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and William Faulkner. Camus also said that James M. Cain?s crime novel The Postman Always Rings Twice provided much inspiration. Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. The prize was awarded largely for his extended essay ?Reflections on the Guillotine?, which argued against capital punishment. Albert Camus was the first African-born writer to receive the award. ?Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.? ?Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.? ?Art and revolt will die only with the last man.? ?But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.? ?Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.? ?I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.? ?Liberty is the right not to lie.? ?I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.? ?Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.? ?The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.? ?A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.? ?A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.? ?I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.? ?I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.? ?I would like to be able to breathe? to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.? ?I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.?

ISBN-13: 9781522821083
ISBN-10: 1522821082
Publication Date: 12/18/2015
Pages: 50
Edition: 1
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