We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
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,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist, he considers… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism. — Catherine Camus Copy Share
We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it,… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
There's no one who can say 'this person is wrong there and right here', and that 'one is right about that and wrong about… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration camps in… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
Politically, [Albert Camus] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile. — Catherine Camus Copy Share
[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation. — Catherine Camus Copy Share
So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in… — Catherine Camus Copy Share
![“[Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f71/catherine-camus-12238_albert_albert-camus-was-not-an-existentialist-5_524863.jpg)
![“We must remember that [Albert] Camus wrote not even a third of what he had wished to.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dff/catherine-camus-12238_remember_we-must-remember-that-albert-camus-wrote_1911909.jpg)
![“Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/catherine-camus-12238_camus_where-albert-camus-is-in-exile-isn-t-esp_787803.jpg)
![“It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34e/catherine-camus-12238_littles_it-s-true-that-women-appear-very-little_1011183.jpg)
![“I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da6/catherine-camus-12238_age_i-think-albert-camus-wanted-to-write-som_2999709.jpg)
![“[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/860/catherine-camus-12238_firsts_albert-camus-is-the-first-man-because-he_1586851.jpg)
![“[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/catherine-camus-12238_art_albert-camus-wasn-t-writing-under-the-in_2733866.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/440/catherine-camus-12238_camus_albert-camus-was-completely-intransigent_2553842.jpg)
![“You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f06/catherine-camus-12238_abstraction_you-end-up-beating-your-head-against-a-w_1547558.jpg)
![“[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's true to say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions . It's his own experience…” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07a/catherine-camus-12238_abstraction_albert-camus-started-thinking-through-se_1084847.jpg)
![“The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/catherine-camus-12238_able_the-first-man-is-albert-camus-posthumous_1989492.jpg)
![“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, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc6/catherine-camus-12238_able_i-think-for-albert-camus-his-mother-was_1741638.jpg)
![“I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist, he considers himself an artist, and so he takes on the responsibility of speaking for those who are not given the means or the opportunity.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/catherine-camus-12238_art_i-couldn-t-ever-act-or-think-on-behalf-o_48718.jpg)
![“We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it, but he needed to write it. It seems to me that if you look at the style of The First Man it conforms much more to who he was as a man, it resembles him very closely.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/982/catherine-camus-12238_book_we-can-t-talk-about-the-book-albert-camu_131209.jpg)
![“One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look at his real physical involvement in the Resistance. He took part, there, in the combat against Nazism.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a13/catherine-camus-12238_combat_one-thing-that-is-evident-is-that-albert_2250437.jpg)
![“Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real way. Their poverty meant that there was nothing else they could think about but what they would eat, how they would clothe themselves. There's just no…” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/catherine-camus-12238_camus_love-is-very-important-in-the-first-man_2369710.jpg)
![“[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f43/catherine-camus-12238_algeria_albert-camus-was-born-in-algeria-of-fren_628933.jpg)