“Pero al final, uno necesita más coraje para vivir que para quitarse la vida”
— Albert Camus.
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I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.
Albert Camus
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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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I’m going to tell you something: Thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.
Albert Camus
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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.
Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959
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I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.
Albert Camus
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But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.
Albert Camus, The Fall
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“i love you without regrets and without reservations, with a great clear impulse that fills me up completely. i love you as i feel myself living, at times, on the summits of the world, and i wait for you with an obstinacy as long as ten lives, a tenderness that will not be exhausted, the great and luminous desire that i have for you, the terrible thirst that i have for your heart. i embrace you, i hold you against me.”
— albert camus to maria casarès, correspondance, [july 1], 1949 [#66]
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The only way to deal with unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
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