"Thus, I always began by assuming the..." - Quote by Albert Camus
Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow.' And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten-- since, in either case, other men will continue living, the world will go on as before. Also, whether I died now or forty years hence, this business of dying had to be got through, inevitably.
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“People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.”
“In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.”
“I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.”
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“My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'”
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“Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.”
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“Nature will not be admired by proxy.”
“If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.”
“If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”