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“I hoped, I think, to recapture there a freedom I could not forget. In that spot, indeed, more than twenty years ago, I had spent whole mornings wandering among the ruins, breathing in the wormwood, warming myself against the stones, discovering little roses, soon plucked of their petals, which outlive the spring.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

“Everything that is ephemeral wants to last.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

“I have not been able to disown the light into which I was born and yet I have not wanted to reject the servitudes of this time.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays

“The kind of learning ordinary people get from talking in the kitchen on winter evenings...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin