Albert Camus, A Happy Death Quotes
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.
The world is always satisfied, it turns out, with countenance it can understand. Indolence and cowardice do the rest. Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...
Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.
But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do.
Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.
You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.
