We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He … - Catherine Camus

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If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. " Translation by David Downie

Catherine Camus

We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it, but he needed to write it. It seems to me that if you look at the style of The First Man it conforms much more to who he was as a man, it resembles him very closely.

Beginnings, Book, Look, Men, Writing, Written

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Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the notes he wrote. You can see a real love story in it, a childhood love story, [Albert] Camus' first. Meursault [protagonist of The Outsider] and Marie were never up to much really. There is Dora in The Just and others in his plays, but they aren't so well known.

Albert, Men, Play, Real, See, Yes

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

Albert, Camus, Littles, Place, True, Women

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

Artist, Heart, Hearts, Possible, Think, Thinking

[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject certain obvious things about life, certain evidences. If you create a system, and you say 'here there is truth', in that kind of pathway [chemin], then you'll evacuate all the other pathways and you'll kill life. It's up to each individual.

Chemin, Exclusion, Individual, Obvious Things, Pathways, Reject

What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation is death. The lie is death in [Albert] Camus. That's why in Camus' play The Misunderstood the son dies, killed by his sister and his mother, because he lied. He never told them who he was. They killed him because they didn't recognise him.

Explanation, Humility, Lying, Mother, Play, Sister