"Camus himself described this work as 'an..." - Quote by Albert Camus
Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'.
More by Albert Camus
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
“When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone.”
“If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.”
More on Understanding
“He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.”
“Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.”
“What people in business think they know about the customer and market is likely to be more wrong than right...the customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.”
More on History
“The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.”