Albert Camus Quotes by Catherine Camus

[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

— Catherine Camus

Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.

— Catherine Camus

We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to.

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It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

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[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

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[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

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There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side…

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The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in…

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[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's…

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I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her,…

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We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any…

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Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection,…

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I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist,…

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Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for…

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[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want…

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[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think…

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[Albert Camus]didn't have much hope that things would work out, but he wanted them to. Algeria had reached such a degree of…

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Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher…

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One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look…

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Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are…

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Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature,…

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[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him…

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[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire.…

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Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In…

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[Albert] Camus always insisted that historical criteria and historical reasoning were not the only things to take into account, and that they…

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I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that…

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I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

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[Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can…

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There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall…

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[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

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[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

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[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

— Catherine Camus

[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad…

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[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that…

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The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he…

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What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation…

— Catherine Camus