“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins.
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“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”
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“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
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"Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report. An openness...an empathy...was necessary if the attention was to matter."
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"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."
“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life to close, and open
like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song
where it falls
down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;
I wanted
to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,
whoever I was, I was
alive
for a little while.”
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life to close, and open
like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song
where it falls
down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;
I wanted
to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,
whoever I was, I was
alive
for a little while.”
"Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable... I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours... Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing... If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much."
The Starry Night
Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) A period of intellectual awakening followed, accompanied by great enthusiasm for sport, especially football (soccer), swimming, and boxing. In 1930, however, the first of several severe attacks of tuberculosis…
Albert Camus
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"Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."
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"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
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“When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It's rain and sun both, noon and midnight. ... I think of the lips I've kissed, and of the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I'm all those things at once. I'm sure there are times when you wouldn't even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness—I can't say it.”
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
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“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
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“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
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"Humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince themselves that their existence is not absurd."
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"Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful."
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"After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent."
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