#the notebooks of albert camus

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks, 1935-1942

[philosophybits]

The remarkable thing in man is not that he despairs, but that he overcomes or forgets despair.

Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951

[flowersforfrancis]

— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959.

[adrasteiax]

December. This heart full of tears and of night.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1942-1951 [translated by Justin O'Brien]

[strykerlancer]

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1935-1951; March 21, 1941.

[esarkaye]

[camus-cat-cigarette]

'No, Caligula is not dead. He is here, and there. He is in each and every one of you. If you had the power, if you had the heart, if you loved life, you would see him, this monster or this angel that you carry within you (...) Farewell, I return to the history where those who fear to love too much have kept me locked up for so long.'

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1948; January 1937 ☆ via albertcamusofficial ig

[fairydrowning]

-Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951–1959

[TEXT ID: "Somebody inside of me has always tried, with all his strength, to be nobody." END ID]

[shisasan]

𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟽 𝙰𝚕𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚝 𝙲𝚊𝚖𝚞𝚜, 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟻-𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟸 [𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾] 

[ID: This August has been like a gulf-a deep breath before the release of everything in a wild effort. Provence, and something closing up within me. Provence like a woman leaning on my shoulder. END ID]

[embeccy]

"Are you in love with me in solitude, with possessiveness?"

- Albert Camus

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a diary entry featured in Notebooks, 1935-1942

[philosophybits]

Civilization does not lie in a greater or lesser degree of refinement, but in an awareness shared by a whole people. And this awareness is never refined. It is even quite simple and straightforward.

Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

"Today, I can understand that to love, act, and suffer is indeed to be alive but only in so far as we become transparent and accept our fate as a single reflection of a rainbow of different joys and passions."

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

Photo Credit: literarianist

[quotessentially]

From Albert Camus’s Notebooks

[beljar]

For years I’ve wanted to live according to everyone else’s morals. I’ve forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth–after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959

[ruknowhere]

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks (1951-1959)