#Albert Camus

[camus-cigarette]

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy" —Albert Camus

Has more meanings than one can imagine.

self destruction really is such a fascinating human response to various factors both external and internal. what if sisyphus could leave at any time but kept rolling the boulder up the hill just to watch it roll back down anyway. what if he kept pushing it even as the rock cut into his palms and his legs began to ache with the desire to rest for even a moment and his body became a canvas of bruises and cuts that never have time to heal. what if he did it because it's the only thing he knows how to do. the only thing that gives him a sense of certainty and control in a world that takes both and offers neither.

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[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Rehearsal at the Angers festival. Albert Camus sitting in front of the stage. 1953.

Photo by Emile Muller

[minastrit]

"Özgürlüğün olmadığı bir dünyayla başa çıkmanın tek yolu, kendi varoluşunu bir başkaldırı haline getirecek kadar özgür davranmaktır.."

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Le fascisme, c’est le mépris. Inversement, toute forme de mépris, si elle intervient en politique, prépare ou instaure le fascisme. Il faut ajouter que le fascisme ne peut être autre chose sans se renier lui-même.

Fascism is contempt. Conversely, all forms of contempt, when they intervene in politics, make fascism possible and strengthen it. One should add that fascism can never be anything else without slipping into self-denial.

—Albert Camus, L’Homme révolté p 225 (1951)

[deviika]

—Albert Camus

[metamorphesque]

― Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1951

[petaltexturedskies]

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from Caligula & Other Plays; "State of Siege: A Play in Three Parts,"

[unleashed-imagination]

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

— Albert Camus

[thoughtkick]

I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.

Albert Camus

[twocozy]

hyper specific 5am collection about freshman year of college (so far) and the pit it leaves inside your chest !!!!!!

Constantin Émile Meunier, Ophelie / D.H. Lawrence / Sung Hwa Kim, Untitled / pinterest user wuxianspeare / Albert Camus / pinterest user raiiiisha / Ramón Casas, Tired

[y2kaee]

"I was looked at,

but I wasn't seen."

Albert Camus, The misunderstanding.

[dumblr]

“I was looked at, but I wasn't seen.”

— Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Should we keep silent about what is in our hearts or tell each other? I've always played the coward, out of respect for you. I've always pretended that I could live with anything, as if I were really made to be the plaything of men and circumstances, as if I did not have a firm heart within me which, faithful and free in its right, beats for that which is highest, you, my beloved!

Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, February 1950? [#222]