21 Quotes About Camus

Mal nommer les choses, jugeait Camus, c'est ajouter au malheur du monde. Ne pas nommer les choses, c'est nier notre humanité.

Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus?

- Tu es et tu resteras toujours une petite-bourgeoise moraliste. Comme Camus.- Tu es et tu resteras toujours un petit con prétencieux. Comme Sartre.

The lesson here is not to take Camus to the beach.

... but he could not believe that the plague might really get a hold of a town where you could still find humble civil servants who devoted their free moments to honourable obsessions. More exactly, he could not imagine how such obsessions fitted into the context of the plague, and so concluded that, in practical terms, the plague had no future among the people of our town.

Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.

Mother died today, or maybe yesterday. I can't be sure.

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.

Uno se forma siempre ideas exageradas de lo que no conoce.