No, he would never know his father, who would continue to sleep over there, his face for ever lost in the ashes. There was a mystery about that man, a mystery he had wanted to penetrate. But after all there was only the mystery of poverty that creates beings without names and without a past, that sends them into the vast throng of the nameless dead who made the world while they themselves were destroyed for ever. For it was just that that his father had in common with the men of the Labrador. The Mahon people of the Sahel, the Alsatians on the high plateaus, with this immense island between sand and sea, which the enormous silence was now beginning to envelop: the silence of anonymity; it enveloped blood and courage and work and instinct, it was at once cruel and compassionate. And he who had wanted to escape from the country without name, from the crowd and from a family without a name, but in whom something had gone on craving darkness and anonymity - he too was a member of the tribe, marching blindly into the night near the old doctor who was panting at his right, listening to the gusts of music coming from the square, seeing once more the hard inscrutable faces of the Arabs around the bandstands, Veillard's laughter and his stubborn face - also seeing with a sweetness and a sorrow that wrung his heart the deathly look on his mother's face at the time of the bombing - wandering though the night of the years in the land of oblivion where each one is the first man, where he had to bring himself up, without a father, having never known those moments when a father would call his son, after waiting for him to reach the age of listening, to tell him the family's secret, or a sorrow of long ago, or the experience of his life, those moments when even the ridiculous and hateful Polonius all of a sudden becomes great when he is speaking to Laertes; and he was sixteen, then he was twenty, and no one had spoken to him, and he had to learn by himself, to grow alone, in fortitude, in strength, find his own morality and truth, at last to be born as a man and then to be born in a harder childbirth, which consists of being born in relation to others, to women, like all the men born in this country who, one by one, try to learn without roots and without faith, and today all of them are threatened with eternal anonymity and the loss of the only consecrated traces of their passage on this earth, the illegible slabs in the cemetery that the night has now covered over; they had to learn how to live in relation to others, to the immense host of the conquerors, now dispossessed, who had preceded them on this land and in whom they now had to recognise the brotherhood of race and destiny.
Albert CamusMots clés fathers
One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.
Albert CamusΉμουν απών τη στιγμή που καταλάμβανα τον περισσότερο χώρο.
Albert CamusPostoji samo jedan istinski ozbiljan filozofski problem: samoubistvo.
Albert CamusI suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.
Albert CamusMots clés romantic romance romance-novels love-story
Kakav je to život u kome se ima mira samo ako se odbaci znanje i življenje.
Albert CamusTener encanto es oír que te contestan sí sin haber hecho ninguna pregunta...
Albert CamusI like the night and the sky better than the gods of men.
Albert CamusEn tant qu'écrivain, j'ai toujours eu horreur de certaines complaisances ; en tant qu'homme, je crois que les aspects repoussants de notre condition, s'ils sont inévitables, doivent être seulement affrontés en silence. Mais lorsque le silence, ou les ruses du langage, contribuent à Maintenir un abus qui doit être réformé ou un malheur qui peut être soulagé, il n'y a pas d'autre solution que de parler clair et de montrer l'obscénité qui se cache sous le manteau des mots.
Albert CamusQuand l'imagination dort, les mots se vident de leur sens.
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