Catherine Camus Quotes

• [Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.

  Catherine Camus

  Thinking, Class, Poverty

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• I think for [Albert] Camus his mother was more than just that. She's love, absolute love. That's why it's written for her, dedicated to 'you who will never be able to read this book'.

  Catherine Camus

  Mother, Book, Thinking

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• During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today

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  Political, Unions, Today

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Escaping, Blood

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• 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.

  Catherine Camus

  Men, Resistance, Existentialist

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• The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

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  Outsiders, Impression, Exile

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• [Albert] Camus siempre insistió en que los criterios históricos y el razonamiento histórico no eran lo único que había que tener en cuenta, y que no eran todopoderosos, que la historia siempre podía equivocarse sobre el hombre. Hoy empezamos a pensar así.

  Catherine Camus

  Poderoso, Hombres, Pensamiento

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• So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in 1955, there comes the rupture, and all, nearly all of the left wing intellectuals become hostile to him. Since he was already unfavourably viewed by the right-wing, he found himself entirely alone.

  Catherine Camus

  Wings, Political, Rebel

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• I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

  Catherine Camus

  Book, Thinking, Solitary

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• I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

  Catherine Camus

  Heart, Artist, Thinking

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• [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.

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  Men, Neutrality, Combat

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• You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .

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  Wall, Men, Firsts

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• Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context. In economics it's the same. Economics wanted to take into account theory over and above human criteria, or the parameter 'man'.

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  Mean, Men, Today

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• When [Jean-Paul] Sartre was asked whether or not he would live under a communist regime he said, "No, for others it's fine, but for me, no." He said it! So it's hard to say just how intellectual his stance is. How can you think that never in your life would you go to live in a communist regime and still say it's fine for everybody? A very difficult thing, that, but Sartre managed it.

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  Thinking, Intellectual, Communist

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• [Albert] Camus points out that we have a lot of things to pass through. Everything has to be accepted before it can be improved.

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  Aceptado

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• 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.

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  Ideas, People, Generosity

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• 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.

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  Spain, Example, Forgotten

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• [Albert Camus] was not an existentialist!

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  Existencialista

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• [Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

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  Real, Commitment, Profound

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• 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.

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  Real, Men, Looks

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• What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation is death. The lie is death in [Albert] Camus. That's why in Camus' play The Misunderstood the son dies, killed by his sister and his mother, because he lied. He never told them who he was. They killed him because they didn't recognise him.

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  Mother, Lying, Humility

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• Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher did for him. And also throughout the world there are Monsieur Germains [his old schoolteacher] everywhere. That's why I published the letters, so that he could have a place in the work.

  Catherine Camus

  Teacher, Old School, World

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• [Albert] Camus escribe su discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel en agradecimiento a su maestro.

  Catherine Camus

  Teacher, Writing, Acceptance

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• The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he describes her. And this teacher really existed.

  Catherine Camus

  Mother, Teacher, Men

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• I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist, he considers himself an artist, and so he takes on the responsibility of speaking for those who are not given the means or the opportunity.

  Catherine Camus

  Father, Mean, Responsibility

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