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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life”.
- Albert Camus
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“I took a long walk this morning because the good weather had attracted me outside. It was the first time in many days that I found a kind of peace. Pink or white almond trees bloom all over the landscape. I feel so far away from people that I can only find peace in nature.”
— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 22, 1950 [#208]
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Albert Camus par Jack Garofalo lors des répétitions de sa pièce « Les Possédés », au Théâtre Antoine, à Paris. Février 1959.
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Albert Camus avec Maria Casarès, rencontrée en 1944 et qu'il appelle l'Unique. Leur histoire ira de ruptures en retrouvailles.
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“I needed to be reminded of mysterious and sacred things,”
— Albert Camus, from his preface to Jean Grenier’s “Les Iles,” c. 1959
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One thinks one has cut oneself off from the world, but it is enough to see an olive tree upright in the golden dust, or beaches glistening in the morning sun, to feel this separation melt away.
Albert Camus, in a diary entry written c. January 1936, from Notebooks 1935-1942
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― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951
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An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. “Can they be brought together?” This is a practical question. We must get down to it. “I despise intelligence” really means: “I cannot bear my doubts.”
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks, 1935-1942
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“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via plantofail)
“Everything is burning, my soul, body, outside, inside, heart, flesh. Do you understand? Do you really understand?”
María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. March 1952
"There is nothing about you that I cannot understand, that my heart cannot accept. I know now that I will love you to the end, against all pain."
- Albert Camus, in a letter to Maria Casares in July
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Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world.
Albert Camus, from The Plague, 10 June 1947
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