February 2012
11 posts
“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
– Albert Camus (via hana-ginkawa)
“Caminhamos ao encontro do amor e do desejo. Não buscamos lições, nem a amarga...”
– Albert Camus. (via trebienn)
“Death means nothing to men like me.”
– Albert Camus, The Plague (via psychiatrically)
“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however,...”
– Albert Camus, The Invisible Summer (1958)
“Não ser amado é uma simples desventura. A verdadeira desgraça é não saber amar.”
– Albert Camus (via inthewrongdirection)
10:29
maha-bekandze:
Authenticity cannot exist in you without the reconciling of body with mind, and mind with soul; sincerity is only possible from the communion taking place between your mind and your soul. This is why contemplation is necessary, to reconcile the mind with soul as a means to unify them, the end being that all communication henceforth-to Oneself and to others-is an act of the soul...
maha-bekandze:
God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
January 2012
10 posts
“How impossible it is to say that anyone is absolutely guilty, and hence...”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1951 (via outofthedarkness)
“Every time I have grasped the world, it is it’s simplicity that always...”
– Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays (via randomglory)
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it...”
– Albert Camus (via innermeetme)
“The world itself is not unreasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is...”
– Albert Camus (via our-lives-as-losers)
“If someone here told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred...”
– Albert Camus - Notebooks (via viciousnessinthekitchen)
“She was wearing a pair of my pajamas with the sleeves rolled up. When she...”
– Albert Camus (via rarararambles)
December 2011
3 posts
“La rivolta consiste nell’amare un uomo che non esiste ancora.”
– Albert Camus (via colorswithlove)
takethatatheism:
Atheists, don’t you love Camus? Even he thinks you should kill yourselves. I disagree though, I don’t think you should, but what other choice is there if your worldview is correct? There is none! And yet you have chosen it! This is what you academia types call “argumentum ad absurdum” I have shown that assuming the truth of a premise leads to a contradiction, therefore the...
November 2011
13 posts
“The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same...”
– Albert Camus (via interwar)
Does anyone on this blog speak multiple languages?
I often see quotes in French and Spanish, but am reluctant to reblog since I assume my audience here mostly speaks English. I speak Spanish myself, and wish I spoke French to read the original texts. I’m just curious if I should reblog more multilingual quotes :)
“Sin embargo, toda la ciencia de esta tierra no me dará nada que pueda asegurarme...”
– Albert Camus - El mito de Sísifo (via astridavila)
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Happy Birthday Albert Camus!
sealionwalksthemoon:
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion”
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When people say "Camus will do, but Sartre was...
outofthedarkness:
You’re seriously going to tell me that Sartre surpasses the man who wrote The Stranger? Really?
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“Mais le plus haut des tourments humain est d’être jugé sans loi.”
– La Chute (via diego-herrera)
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“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s burden...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (via heaven-behind-those-eyes)
“A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it. A man...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via outofthedarkness)
“The work of art is born of the refusal of the intelligence to reason the...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via scpt411)
“There are those who are made for living and those who are made for loving.”
– Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus (via christiankeyes)
October 2011
20 posts
“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies...”
– Albert Camus, Helen’s Exile (via notitatall)
“After a moment she turned and looked at me. Her hair was over her eyes and she...”
– Albert Camus - the Stranger (via oldthrashbarg)
“The illuminated air seemed to vibrate around them with a vibration that grew...”
– Albert Camus, The Adulterous Wife (via srirachapea)
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
– Albert Camus (via poolsandpearls)
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“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in...”
– Albert Camus (via merelyaglance)
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“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of...”
– Albert Camus (via alternadoll)
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“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse...”
– Albert Camus (via ruthlessheart23)
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“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
– The Stranger- Albert Camus (via bellumbones)
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