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81 " Il admirait le curieux aveuglement par quoi les hommes, si renseignés pourtant sur ce qui change en eux, imposent à leurs amis l'image qu'une fois pour toutes ils se sont faite d'eux. Pour lui, on le jugeait selon ce qu'il avait été. Comme un chien ne change pas de caractère, les hommes sont des chiens pour l'homme. Et dans la mesure même où Céleste, René et les autres l'avaient beaucoup connu, il leur devenait aussi étranger et aussi fermé qu'une planète inhabitée. "
― Albert Camus , A Happy Death
82 " Cada vez que pienso en este camino de dolor y de alegría dentro de mí, sé bien, y con que arrebato, que la partida que juego es la más seria, la más exaltadora de todas. "
83 " El amor que me tienen no me obliga a nada. "
84 " En una vida con la que sin embargo no sabía qué hacer. "
85 " Pero a nuestra edad no se ama, veamos. Se gusta uno a otro, esto es todo. Más tarde, cuando uno es viejo e impotente, puede amar. A nuestra edad, creemos que amamos.Esto es todo, vaya. "
86 " Pero a veces se necesita más valor para vivir que para matarse. "
87 " El mundo solo dice siempre una cosa, e interesa, después cansa. "
88 " Day after day, Mersault let himself sink into his life as if he were sliding into water. And just as the swimmer advances by the complicity of his arms and the water which bears him up, helps him on, it was enough to make a few essential gestures - to rest one hand on a tree trunk, to take a run on the beach - in order to keep himself intact and conscious. "
89 " Thus he became one with a life in its pure state, he rediscovered a paradise given only to the most private or the most intelligent animals. At the point where the mind denies the mind, he touched his truth and with it his extreme glory, his extreme love. "
90 " Aku tahu seberapa bahagia hidup yang dapat kuraih. Sebelumnya, aku masih terlalu muda. Aku menghalangi diriku sendiri. Sekarang, aku mengerti bahwa bertindak dan bercinta dan menderita, adalah hidup, memang, tapi itu hanyalah hidup dalam tahapan di mana kau jujur dan menerima hidupmu begitu saja, seperti pantulan satu-satunya dari pelangi kebahagiaan yang sama cantiknya, atau jeleknya, untuk semua orang. "
91 " What mattered was to humble himself, to organize his heart to match the rhythm of the days instead of submitting their rhythm to the curve of human hopes. "
92 " Beyond the curve of the days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity - happiness was human, eternity ordinary. What mattered was to humble himself, to organize his heart to match the rhythm of the days instead of submitting their rhythm to the curve of human hopes. "
93 " 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. "
94 " Tout cette eau descendant avec son chargement de cris, de mélodies, et d'odeurs de jardins, pleine des lueurs cuivrées du ciel couchant et des ombres contorsionnées et grotesques des statues du pont Charles, apportait à Mersault la conscience douloureuse et ardente d'une solitude sans ferveur où l'amour n'avait plus de part. Et s'arrêtant devant le parfum d'eaux et de feuilles qui montait jusqu'à lui, la gorge serrée, il imaginait des larmes qui ne venaient pas. Il eût suffi d'un ami, ou des bras ouverts. Mais les larmes s'arrêtaient à la frontière du monde sans tendresse où il était plongé. "
95 " Il faut du temps pour vivre. Comme toute oeuvre d'art, la vie exige qu'on y pense. "
96 " I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to 'LIllustration. Something desperate, you know."Zagreus smiled. "You're a poor man, Mersault. That explains half of your disgust. And the other half you owe to your own submission to poverty. "
97 " No tenemos tiempo para ser nosotros mismos. Solo tenemos tiempo para ser felices. "
98 " No haría de mi vida una experiencia. Sería la experiencia de mi vida. "
99 " Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched—just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance—so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned. "
100 " Sometimes he picked up his watch and stared as the minute hand shifted from one number to the next, marveling that five minutes should seem so interminable. Doubtless that watch opened the way—a painful and tormenting way—which leads to the supreme art of doing nothing. "