Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master . Camus Albert

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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master,

the weight of days is dreadful.

Camus, Albert

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

When finding quotes one can relate to, investigating about the heart and mind they were generated from, sometimes brings interesting surprises when you learn the context and the background of such quote.

Albert Camus a Political Moralist

The writings of Albert Camus have had a decisive influence on the political convictions of many young Frenchmen. Yet he often sounds like a Christian moralist. In fact there is no better way of moving toward the center of his political convictions than by recognizing their theological dimension.

"The astonishing history evoked here is the history of European pride." With these words Camus introduces his eloquent study of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Rebel (New York: Alfred Knopf, Inc., 1956). Camus writes scathingly "of the horizontal religions of our times," of the attempted deification of man that has plagued contemporary life. In the fashion of the Christian prophet, he pursues the moral pretensions of the French Revolutionaries, the pedantry and hypocrisy of the bourgeois world, the demonia of the fascists, and the messianic utopianism of the Marxists. In all these movements, Camus argues, man overreaches himself, pretends to one sort of divinity or another, but concludes by justifying the violation of man.