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Notebooks, 1935-1951

The musings and sketches of Albert Camus offer insight into the molding and working of a creative mind. Covering ground form young adulthood to the height of Camus's career, these notebooks contain sketches for future works, excerpts from favorite books,

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“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.’”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Experience, Justice, Be yourself, enjoy life

“Overflow gently — don’t drown.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: gentle, doing things slowly, gradually acting, Living, Living A Balanced Life

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: fear and respect, Respect Difference

“It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Sadness, Shame, Suffering, Physical suffering

“Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and secrecy. The miracle of…”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Existentialism, Life

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: self, Experience

“The essential thing is not to lose oneself, and not to lose that part of oneself that lies sleeping in the world.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, self, losing oneself, Motivational, Self Esteem