Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dic…

Albert Camus
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
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For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p.201, Vintage
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I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey. ✨ Albert Camus (1963). Carnets: 1935-1942
At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.
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