Status Updates From A morte feliz

"So many evenings had promised him happiness that to experience this one as happiness itself made him realize how far he had come, from hope to conquest. In the innocence of his heart, Mersault accepted this green sky and this love-soaked earth with the same thrill of passion and desire as when he had killed Zagreus in the innocence of his heart."

-Camus, Albert. A Happy Death.

"If this night was in some sense the figure of their fate, they marveled 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 learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death."

-Camus, Albert. A Happy Death.

"Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."

-Camus, Albert. A Happy Death.

“Of course my life is ruined. But I was right in those days: everything for happiness, against the world which surrounds us with its violence and its stupidity.” Zagreus laughed then and added: “You see, Mersault, all the misery and cruelty of our civilization can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.”

-Camus, Albert. A Happy Death.