“I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.” Quote by Catherine Camus
“The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.” ImpressionOutsidersExile Author:Catherine Camus
“Where [Albert Camus] is in exile isn't especially in Paris or elsewhere, but from the intellectual world, because of his origins.” WorldIntellectualParisElsewhereExile Author:Catherine Camus
“Just because of [Albert Camus] way of sensing before thinking. He's in a field that he often feels like escaping from. In any case, you have to learn what blood is. It all has to be rationalised. In that he feels exiled, solitary.” ThinkingWayFeelsCasesBloodFieldsSolitaryEscapingSensing Author:Catherine Camus
“One thing that is evident is that [Albert] Camus could never be a 'neutral' man. This is because he was committed; look at his real physical involvement in the Resistance. He took part, there, in the combat against Nazism.” MenLooksRealOne ThingCommittedResistanceCombatEvidentInvolvementNazism Author:Catherine Camus
“[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.” RealCommitmentProfoundResistanceEngagementTotalitarianism Author:Catherine Camus
“For example, it's often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the end. He refused to travel to Spain, he left UNESCO because UNESCO accepted Franco's Spain and allowed it a discourse.” EndsLeftExampleForgottenAcceptedRegimesDiscourseHostileSpainFrancoUnescoFrancisco Franco Author:Catherine Camus
“[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.” MenInvolvedCommittedCombatNeutrality Author:Catherine Camus
“Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.” MenCoursesCommittedResistanceCombatJournalExistentialist Author:Catherine Camus
“Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in its beginnings. Generosity had a place in people's hopes.” PeopleIdeasHumanityIncludingCommunismGenerosityPaul Sartre Author:Catherine Camus