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A Happy Death
Albert Camus
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”
“Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.”
“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
“People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”
“He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always decieve ourselves twice about the people we love-first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage”
“You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.”
“When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It's rain and sun both, noon and midnight. ... I think of the lips I've kissed, and of the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I'm all those things at once. I'm sure there are times when you wouldn't even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness—I can't say it.”
“To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope. On both perhaps.”
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Book Keywords:
humor, love, existentialism, old-age, philosophy, desperation