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"When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It’s rain and sun both, noon and midnight. I think of the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I’m all those things at once. I’m sure there are times when you wouldn’t even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness—I can’t say it.”
— May 12, 2026 07:44AM
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alba
is on page 95 of 192
"At the strange peace that filled him as he watched the evening suddenly freshening upon the sea, he realized that after this great tumult and this fury, what was dark and wrong within him was gone now. He understood he had pursued singlemindedly a happiness which in his heart he believed was impossible. He had played at wanting to be happy. Never had he sought happiness with a conscious and deliberate desire."
— Jul 13, 2026 10:42AM
alba
is on page 87 of 192
he stammered: “I loved her, I loved her,” and Mersault translated: “She loved me.” “She’s dead,” and Mersault understood: “I’m alone.”
— Jul 13, 2026 03:49AM
alba
is on page 70 of 192
“Sometimes there are days when you’d like to change places with him. But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
— Jul 09, 2026 11:31AM
alba
is on page 65 of 192
"Don’t think I’m saying that money makes happiness. I only mean that for a certain class of beings happiness is possible, provided they have time, and that having money is a way of being free of money.”
— Jul 08, 2026 02:23AM
alba
is on page 25 of 192
"Things that in other circumstances would have excited him left him unmoved now, for they were simply part of his life, until the moment he was back in his room using all his strength and care to smother the flame of life that burned within him."
— May 06, 2026 12:20AM