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title: "4 Nobel Quotes By Catherine Camus"
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> [ The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition \[reconnaissance\] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/the-nobel-prize-comes-from-outside-it-s-a-social-recognition/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

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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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/recognition-gratefulness-exist-speech-for-the-nobel-prize-is-to-show/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

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> [ \[Albert\] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/albert-camus-writes-his-acceptance-speech-for-the-nobel-prize-in/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

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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. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/albert-camus-wasn-t-writing-under-the-influence-of-the-nobel-prize/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

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## Other authors on Nobel

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- [Ahmed H. Zewail 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nobel/ahmed-h-zewail/)

## More by Catherine Camus

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/i-couldn-t-ever-act-or-think-on-behalf-of-what-my-father-albert-camus/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ \[Albert Camus\] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/albert-camus-positions-are-sensed-so-naturally-those-intellectuals/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ \[Albert Camus\] always held a profound commitment \[engagement\], a real resistance to all totalitarianism. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/albert-camus-always-held-a-profound-commitment-engagement-a-real/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ 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,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/we-can-t-talk-about-the-book-albert-camus-wanted-to-write-because-we/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/there-s-no-one-who-can-say-this-person-is-wrong-there-and-right-here/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/intellectuals-of-albert-camus-age-who-had-previously-disliked-him-now/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ \[Albert\]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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/albert-camus-had-denounced-the-gulag-and-stalin-s-trials-today-we-can/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ Politically, \[Albert Camus\] was in favour of a federation, and effectively he considered that like South Africa today (or as they are trying to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/politically-albert-camus-was-in-favour-of-a-federation-and/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/albert-camus-was-never-abandoned-by-his-readers-camus-is-enormously/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ \[Albert Camus\] was not an existentialist! ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/albert-camus-was-not-an-existentialist/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ The Outsider isn't \[Albert\] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/the-outsider-isn-t-albert-camus-but-in-the-outsider-there-are-parts/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ \[Albert\] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/albert-camus-was-born-in-algeria-of-french-nationality-and-was/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/the-nobel-prize-comes-from-outside-it-s-a-social-recognition/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ 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. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/just-after-the-war-the-liberation-of-1945-albert-camus-was-well-known/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

> [ So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that \[Albert\] Camus wrote The Rebel, in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-camus/so-time-passes-and-a-much-more-political-rather-than-literary/)

[Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-camus/)

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