Albert Camus Quotes
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
Camus, Albert. Notebooks 1935-1942. Translated by Philip Thody, Alfred A. Knopf, 1963, p. 57.
This was written while she was in a U. S. prison. She wrote the manuscript and smuggled it out. It was published under the Pseudonym of “Junius.” As a result the prison authorities had no idea that she was running an anti-war and anti-government publishing operation from prison. What was she in prison for? Writing and speaking against the government and the war.
Many people who were opposed to slavery, were not willing to take any draconian steps to end or curtail the practice as every proposal had implications for the existing institutions in the country and the society. Starting with the Union itself and the Congress and the government, churches, associations, states, even families were irrevocably split.
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
