A Wisdom Archive on Albert Camus

Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. Camus was the second youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (after Rudyard Kipling) when he received the award in 1957. He is also the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in a car crash 3 years after receiving the award. Albert Camus - Early years. Albert Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria to a Fre ... Including:

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During the war Camus joined the French Resistance cell Combat, which published an underground newspaper of the same name. This group worked against the Nazis, and in it Camus assumed the moniker "Beauchard". Camus became the paper's editor in 1943, and when the Allies liberated Paris Camus reported on the last of the fighting. He eventually resigned from Combat in 1947, when it became a commercial paper. It was here ...

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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
 
- Albert Camus

 
(See also: Inspirational Quotes, Love Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Life Quotes )

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A punishment that destroys the condemned, degrades the executioner, arouses public manifestations of sadism and excites a hideous vainglory in certain criminals, while forestalling nothing, is in truth only a form of revenge: A punishment that penalises without forestalling is indeed called revenge. It is a quasi-arithmetical reply made by society to whoever breaks its primordial law.

 
(See also: Life and Death, Life and Beyond, Death and Dying, Body Mind and Soul )

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A Happy Death was the first novel from French writer-philosopher Albert Camus. First published following Camus' death in 1960, it is clearly the precursor to his most famous work, The Stranger. Other related archives1960, Albert Camus, The Stranger

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The Stranger may mean: The Stranger (album), by Billy Joel The Stranger (novel), by Albert Camus The Stranger (1946 movie), directed by Orson Welles The Stranger (1967 movie), based on Camus' novel and directed by Luchino Visconti Stranger (2005 movie), directed by Daniel Hess The Stranger (television) (aka Stranded in Space), a science-fiction TV pilot starring Glenn Corbett. The Stranger (newspaper), an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington

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The Fall (La Chute) is a novel by Albert Camus, first published in 1956. Set in Amsterdam, The Fall consists of a series of monologues by a self-proclaimed 'judge penitent' Jean-Baptiste Clamence, as he reflects upon his life to a stranger. Clamence tells us of his success, he enjoyed an upstanding role in society, esteem from fellows, and a rich sensuous life, and his ultimate 'fall' from grace. Jean-Paul Sartre is noted to have regarded it as Camus' greatest work of fiction, and not without reason. It is

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