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At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. As it is, in its distressing nudity, in its light without effulgence, it is elusive.

Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier . Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday. L’Étranger (The Stranger) pt. 1, ch. 1 (1942)

The New Yale Book of Quotations
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offers us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Can one be a saint without God? That’s the problem, in fact the only problem, I’m up against today.

The New Yale Book of Quotations
Do not wait for the last judgement. It comes every day.
Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

The Rebel (1951)

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