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Albert Camus (1913-1960)


Nacque a Mondovi [Algeria] il 7 novembre 1913 da una famiglia francese residente in Algeria. A Algeri studiò, in condizioni economiche difficili, e cominciò a lavorare come attore e giornalista. Dal 1940 a Paris, partecipò alla resistenza. Nel dopoguerra fu caporedattore del giornale «Combat». Nel 1957 ebbe il nobel per la letteratura (con questa motivazione: "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"). Nel 1958 compra una casa a Lourmarin [Provenza]. Il 4 gennaio 1960 parte per Paris in compagnia di Michel Gallimard: morì a causa di un incidente automobilistico, a Villeblevin [Yonne]: la sua Facel Vega si schiantò contro un platano sulla nazionale Sens-Paris mentre correva a 140 Km l'ora.


all modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State
an actor is a sincere liar
an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself
as a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our reach
creative people are the opposite of civilised people
freedom of the press is perhaps the one that has suffered the most from the slow degradation of the idea of liberty
here lives a free man. No one serves him
if a master can\'t do without his slave, which of the two is a free man?
it\'s not the struggle that makes us be artists, but Art that makes us struggle
man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is
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
success is easy to obtain, what is difficult is to deserve it
the future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves
the only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone
there is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide
they were saying to me that a few deaths were necessary to bring in a world in which no one would be killed any more
what matters is not that which one says, but that which does not need to be said
you know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question
you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life