Posted: 15 September 2005 at 11:22pm | IP Logged

Anybody heard of him? Great writing so is his style. Do you have any favorite novel?

I love "The Stranger" which one of The Cure 's songs was inspired by and "The Plague" is very good.

Posted: 13 October 2005 at 11:45pm | IP Logged

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/camus.htm

one of those I got

he also wrote "Pestilence" which is really good

Posted: 28 August 2009 at 12:34am | IP Logged

Here are some quotes from Mr. Camus:

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.