It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.— Albert Camus (via philosophicalpoetry)
(via the-hard-luck-lady)
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.— Albert Camus (via robotgod)
(Source: beethovenlivesupstairs, via perfectlybombastic)
25
Feb
Caesonia: |
You cannot keep the sky from being the sky, or a beautiful face from becoming ugly, or a man's heart from becoming insensitive. |
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Caligula: |
I want to mingle sea and sky, ugliness and beauty, and make laughter burst from the heart of suffering. |
Caesonia: |
There is good and evil, noble and vile, just and unjust. I assure you. That will never change. |
Caligula: |
It is my will to change that. I shall give this age the gift of equality. And when everything is leveled down, the impossible has descended on earth, and the moon is in my hands, then perhaps I myself shall be transformed and the world too, then perhaps there will be no more death and men will be happy. |
En parlant d’amour: “C’est le gendre de maladies qui n’épargnent ni les intelligents ni les imbéciles.”
Albert Camus, Caligula
— Albert CamusAu milieu de l’hiver, j’ai découvert en moi un invincible été.”
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“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
