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

—Albert Camus

About Albert Camus

Portrait of Albert Camus

Albert Camus ( kam-OO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, writer, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature...

More quotations from Albert Camus

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

—Albert Camus

We only know of one duty, and that is to love.

—Albert Camus

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.

—Albert Camus

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

—Albert Camus

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

—Albert Camus

More quotations tagged with “winter”

The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

time perception age summer spring winter snow fall

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

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And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

—Sinclair Lewis

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

—Andy Goldsworthy

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