Albert Camus Quotes
We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.
Camus, Albert. Lyrical and Critical Essays. Translated by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, Vintage Books, 1970.
The proverb is one of the aboriginal people of Australia.
This was one of Robert Kennedy’s favorite quotes. Though his version is unique, the original idea comes from the book, Back to Methuselah. See George Bernard Shaw. {642128} The great American Scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had expressed a variant of the idea in {639985} .
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.
