Mohammad Azad

“Motionless now, Mersault felt how close happiness is to tears, caught up in that silent exultation which weaves together the hopes and despairs of human life. Conscious yet alienated, devoured by passion yet disinterest, Mersault realized that his life and his fate were completed here and that henceforth all his efforts would be to submit to this happiness and to confront its terrible truth.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“If this night was in some sense the figure of their fate, they marvelled that it should be at once so carnal and so secret, that upon its countenance mingled both tears and the sun. And with pain and joy, their hearts yearned to hear that double lesson which leads to the happy death.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“Suddenly turning around, she said to Patrice: ‘On good days, if you trust life, life has to answer you.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“Never give up, Catherine. You have so much inside you, and the noblest sense of happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death