How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man! ✨ Caligula: a drama …

Albert Camus
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How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man! ✨ Caligula: a drama in two acts.
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Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.
It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to … ▶
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Fall, p.79, Vintage

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