Sign in with Facebook
“The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
― Notebooks 1935-1942
“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
―
―
“Storm sky in August. Gusts of hot wind. Black clouds. Yet in the East is a delicate, transparent band of blue sky. Impossible to look at it. Its presence is a torture for the eyes and for the soul, because 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
“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“friendship in marriage is its own thing: friendship in a cup of tea, or a glass of wine, or a cappuccino every Sunday morning. Friendship in buying undershirts and underpants. Friendship in picking up a prescription or rescuing the towed car. Friendship in waiting for the phone call after the mammogram. Friendship in toast buttered just so. Friendship in shoveling the snow. I am the one you want to tell. You are the one I want to tell.”
―
―
Carly’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carly’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
546 books
|
55 friends
218 books
|
87 friends
22 books
|
1 friend
1 book
|
2 friends
0 books
|
5 friends
3 books
|
59 friends
185 books
|
21 friends
1 book
|
44 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Carly
Lists liked by Carly
