We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert CamusDon't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert CamusThe world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it
Albert CamusYou are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusTag: success happiness forgiveness sharing you
You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.
Albert CamusBut sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
Albert CamusIf there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
(as quoted by Tony Judt)
Tag: ethics philosophy camus tony-judt
Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.
Albert CamusI feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
Albert CamusTag: humor desperation
Squeezed against each other in the heavy heat, they were silent...looking toward the home that was expecting them--quiet, perspiring, resigned to this existence divided among a soulless job, long trips coming and going in an uncomfortable trolley, and at the end an abrupt sleep. On some evenings it would sadden Jacques to look at them. Until then he had only known the riches and the joys of poverty. But now heat and boredom and fatigue were showing him their curse, the curse of work so stupid you could weep and so interminably monotonous that it made the days too long and, at the same time, life too short.
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