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“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
― The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
― The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“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.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
― Notebooks 1935-1942
“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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