Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday.
Albert Camus · The Stranger (1942), pt. I, opening line
Albert Camus: French novelist and philosopher of the absurd, Nobel laureate, 1913 to 1960.
Albert Camus · The Stranger (1942), pt. I, opening line
Albert Camus · The source reads: “For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.” · The Stranger (1942), pt. IV
Albert Camus · The Plague (1947)
Albert Camus · The source reads: “Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood. That is why some of our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.” · Caliban (June 1948), collected in Actuelles I (1950)
Albert Camus · The source reads: “Tout rèvolutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en hèrètique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.”
Albert Camus · The source reads: “Nous nous confions rarement á ceux qui sont meilleurs que nous. We seldom confide in those who are better than ourselves.”
Albert Camus · Summer (1954), Return to Tipasa
Albert Camus · The source reads: “I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.” · The Fall (1956)
Albert Camus · The Plague (1947)
Albert Camus · The source reads: “Qu'est-ce qu'un homme rèvoltè ? Un homme qui dit non. What is a rebel? A man who says no.”
Albert Camus · The source reads: “The struggle to reach the top is itself enough to fulfill the heart of man. One must believe that Sisyphus is happy.” · The last lines of The Myth of Sisyphus.
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