Young women looking after a children's summer camp, the ice-cream vendor's horn (his cart is a gondola on wheels, pushed by two handles), the displays of fruit, red melons with black pips, translucent, sticky grapes -- all are props for the person who can no longer be alone. [1] But the cicadas' tender and bitter chirping, the perfume of water and stars one meets on September nights, the scented paths among the lentisks and the rosebushes, all these are signs of love for the person forced to be alone. [2]

[1] That is to say, everybody.
[2] That is to say, everybody.

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Here I understand what is meant by glory: the right to love without limits.

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Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

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None of this fits together? How very true! A woman you leave behind to go to the movies, an old man to whom you have stopped listening, a death that redeems nothing, and then, on the other hand, the whole radiance of the world. What difference does it make if you accept everything? Here are three destinies, different and yet alike. Death for us all, but his own death to each. After all, the sun still warms our bones for us.

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A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).

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Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity.

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To correct a natural indifference, I was placed halfway between poverty and the sun. Poverty kept me from thinking all was well under the sun and in history; the sun taught me that history was not everything.

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C'est que je n'ai jamais grand chose à dire. Alors je me tais.

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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

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Mots clés meaning-of-life nihilism existentialism absurdism the-absurd

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