There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
Albert Camus, The First Man
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“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” ― Khalil Gibran
Painting by Aldo Balding
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― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951
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“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
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— Albert Camus, The Possessed
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Albert Camus, from a letter to Maria Casarès written in August 1948
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I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
Albert Camus, The Fall
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Ah! I'm suffocating from this longing I have for you.
Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 6, 1950 [#174]
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
Albert Camus
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"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning." - Vincent Van Gogh
Painting: "Wheatfield with a Reaper" by Vincent van Gogh
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One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
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