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Happy Birthday Albert Camus!
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion”
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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (via heaven-behind-those-eyes) -
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."
Albert Camus (via poolsandpearls) -
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
Albert Camus (via ruthlessheart23)(Source: 7heartbreaks, via sexistmorons)
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I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world."
The Stranger- Albert Camus (via bellumbones) -
I know of only one duty, and that is to love."
Albert Camus (via madman-with-a-blog)(Source: coerciveleftfist)
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
Albert Camus (via dandyoftheunderworld)(via dandyoftheunderworld)
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I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold."
Albert Camus, The Stranger (via aesthetically-problematic) -
For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
Albert Camus, The Stranger (via halfpasttwelve) -
He seemed so certain about everything, didn’t he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman’s head. He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas it looked as if I was the one who’d come up emptyhanded. But I was sure about me, about everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of the death I had waiting for me."
The Stranger: Albert Camus (via empty-seas) -
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
Albert Camus (via marquis-in-spades-at)(via sexistmorons)
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And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing."
Albert Camus, L’Étranger (via descitoyens) -
At times, late on those nights when the dancing, the slight intoxication, my wild enthusiasm, everyone’s violent unrestraint would fill me with a tired and overwhelmed rapture, it would seem to me—at the breaking point of fatigue and for a second’s flash—that at last I understood the secret of creatures and of the world."
Albert Camus, The Fall (via lacielacie) -
But do you know why we are always more just and more generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation."
Albert Camus, The Fall -
I was very fond of you, but now I’m so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn’t be happy to make another start."
Albert Camus, The Plague
