Nov. 8: Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. Wikipedia

Born: November 7, 1913, Dréan, Algeria

Died: January 4, 1960, Villeblevin, France

Plays: Caligula, The Just Assassins, The Misunderstanding, The State of Siege, The Possessed, La Peste

Movies: The Stranger, Far from Men, Fate, The First Man, MORE

Quotes

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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

History finds Camus on the right side of so many of the great moral issues of the 20th century. He joined the French resistance to combat Nazism. He campaigned against the death penalty. “L'Homme Révolté” (“The Rebel”), his anti-totalitarian work, was remarkably perceptive about the evils of Stalinism

Albert Camus: morally lucid, humane and resolutely modern

Camus was born on November 7th 1913

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