Catherine Camus Quotes About Poverty

• [Albert] Camus' nació en Argelia de nacionalidad francesa, y fue asimilado en la colonia francesa, aunque los colonos franceses lo rechazaron absolutamente a causa de su pobreza.

  Catherine Camus

  Algeria, Poverty, Born

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• Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real way. Their poverty meant that there was nothing else they could think about but what they would eat, how they would clothe themselves. There's just no room for other things in his family. It's difficult for others to imagine the position in which he found himself. There is no imaginary existence in their lives.

  Catherine Camus

  Real, Love Is, Men

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• [Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.

  Catherine Camus

  Thinking, Class, Poverty

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• [French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty.

  Catherine Camus

  Media, Clase, Dar

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