“If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created.  It is created here, throughout a whole life.  And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.” —Albert Camus Yes! Thank you, apoetreflects.

“If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created.  It is created here, throughout a whole life.  And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.”

—Albert Camus

Yes! Thank you, apoetreflects.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus, courtesy of riskywiver.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus (Thank you, quaerere-deum, thelittlesea & photonmessage)

(via quaerere-deum)

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus (via awritersruminations) (via azultierra) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus (via signa & samsaramotel)
Camus on the balcony, Loomis Dean - LIFE “A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.” - As quoted in Albert Camus : The Invincible Summer (1958) by Albert Maquet, p. 86; a remark made about the Marquis de Sade. Thank you, velveteenrabbit & i12bent.

Camus on the balcony, Loomis Dean - LIFE

“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.” - As quoted in Albert Camus : The Invincible Summer (1958) by Albert Maquet, p. 86; a remark made about the Marquis de Sade.

Thank you, velveteenrabbit & i12bent.