I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.
Albert CamusIf Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.
Albert CamusBut in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The seas, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death--these are things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all. Striving towards realism is therefore legitimate, for it is basically related to the artistic adventure.
Albert CamusWhat is there more real, for instance, in our universe than a man's life, and how can we hope to preserve it better than a realistic film? But under what conditions is such a film possible? Under purely imaginary conditions. We should have to presuppose, in fact, an ideal camera focused on the man day and night and constantly registering his every move. The very projection of such a film would last a lifetime and could be seen only by an audience of people willing to waste their lives in watching someone else's life in great detail. Even under such conditions, such an unimaginable film would not be realistic for the simple reason that the reality of a man's life is not limited to the spot in which he happens to be. It lies also in other lives that give shape to his--lives of people he loves, to begin with, which would have to be filmed too, and also lives of unknown people, influential and insignificant, fellow citizens, policemen, professors, invisible comrades from the mines and foundries, diplomats and dictators, religious reformers, artists who create myths that are decisive for out conduct--humble representatives, in short, of the sovereign chance that dominates the most routine existences. Consequently, there is but one possible realistic film: one that is constantly shown us by an invisible camera on the world's screen. The only realistic artist, then, is God, if he exists. All other artists are, ipso facto, unfaithful to reality.
Albert Camusthe play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished and squandered.
Albert CamusI don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
Albert CamusTag: philosophy
Entre mi colchoneta y la tabla de la cama, había encontrado, en efecto, un viejo pedazo de periódico casi pegado a la tela, amarillento y transparente. Relataba un suceso cuyo comienzo faltaba, pero que debía haber acontecido en Checoslovaquia. Un hombre había salido de una aldea checa para hacer fortuna. Al cabo de veinticinco años, había regresado, rico, con una mujer y un niño. Su madre regentaba un hotel con su hermana en la aldea natal. Para darles una sorpresa, dejó a su mujer y a su hijo en otro alojamiento y fue al hotel de su madre, que no lo reconoció cuando entró. Por broma, tomó una habitación. Había dejado ver su dinero. Durante la noche, su madre y su hermana lo asesinaron a martillazos para robarle y arrojaron su cuerpo al río. Por la mañana vino la mujer y reveló sin darse cuenta la identidad del viajero. La madre se ahorcó. La hermana se arrojó a un pozo. Debí de leer esta historia miles de veces. Por una parte, era inverosímil. Por otra, era natural. Me parecía, de todos modos, que el viajero lo había merecido un poco y que nunca se debe jugar.
Albert CamusIf one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved
Albert CamusI knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
Albert CamusI know simply that the sky will last longer than I.
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