Lily

“If to love implies spending one's life loving, and creating a particular kind of life, then pure love is a love which is dead. It becomes nothing more than a point of reference, and we still need to seek an understanding about all the rest”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace — the world and the heart know nothing about it.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been able to keep my secret I have overcome the suffering of loneliness. To go right to the end implies knowing how to keep one's secret. And, today, there is no greater joy than to live alone and unknown. My deepest joy is to write. To accept the world and to accept pleasure—but only when I am stripped bare of everything. I should not be worthy to love the bare and empty beaches if I could not remain naked in the presence of myself. For the first time I can understand the meaning of the word happiness without any ambiguity. It is a little different from what men normally mean when they say: 'i am happy.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942