To remain silent is better than to be wrong Camus that's DEEP

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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

Denemeler ve Bir Alman Dosta Mektuplar, Say Yayınları, 1982.

In solitude and when fatigued, one is inclined, after all, to take oneself for a prophet.

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practise generosity.

I love life--that is my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

I <3 Camus: Anyone who has meditated a good deal on man, by profession or vocation, is led to feel nostalgia for primates. They at least have no ulterior motives.

Fancy the Cro-Magnon man lodged in the Tower of Babel! He would certainly feel out of his element.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Writing has officially begun: first sentence is on the page!!! Difficult part is over!!!!

Politics and the fate of man are shaped by men without ideals or nobility. Those who possess nobility are not in politics.

And even in this sadness, what a desire to love, and what intoxication at the very view of a hill in the evening air.

Coffe and Camus!!!! <3 on a chilly day!

Ch 1 of my thesis will be entitled: Maintaining The Myth!

to remain silent is better than to be wrong

Reflections On The Guillotine after Lottman's bio...I think I can, I think can, I think can...

Once, descending from Bouzareah, they were witnesses to an accident. A Moslem child had been hit by a bus...walking away, Camus turned...raising a finger towards the heavens he said:"You see, He says... more

Once, descending from Bouzareah, they were witnesses to an accident. A Moslem child had been hit by a bus...walking away, Camus turned...raising a finger towards the heavens he said:"You see, He says nothing."

Ok folks, Camus was neither an atheist nor an existentialist. Two claims he outright refutes in his writings...

The world is not in a condition of pure stability; nor is it only movement. It is both movement and stability.

No art can completely reject reality. ~Camus, The Rebel

Music exists, however, in which symphonies are completed, where melody gives it form to sounds that by themselves have none, and where, finally, a particular arrangement of notes extracts from... more

Music exists, however, in which symphonies are completed, where melody gives it form to sounds that by themselves have none, and where, finally, a particular arrangement of notes extracts from natural disorder a unity that is satisfying to the mind and the heart.

"To destroy everything is to pledge oneself to building without foundations, and then to holding up the wall's with one's hands."

goal: finish The Rebel! I LOVE THIS BOOK, it will be sad to be done with it.

Plays: read! Next: The Rebel!!!

"Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back in love."

<3 <3 <3 after some pretty bad films, a palate cleansing: finishing up State Of Siege, then on to Just Assassins! Yay!!