Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

Algerian-French author and philosopher

Attributed

• Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.

• Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

• "La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un coeur d'homme; il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."
  • Translation: "The fight itself towards the summits suffices to fill a heart of man; it is necessary to imagine happy Sisyphe."

• "Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."

• "Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day."

• "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

• "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

• "There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."