Quote #26
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists whom write in images instead of arguments.
More from Albert Camus
- Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
- Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they rec…
- What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad…
- At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
- What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.
- It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, m…
- Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality m…
- If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my finge…