Batman (1989)
“The days are long and weigh on me. I am suffocating.”
— Albert Camus, from a letter featured in “A Life Worth Living,” c. 1940
“J’étais trop jeune lorsque je t’ai connu pour saisir véritablement tout ce que « nous » représentions et il a peut-être fallu que j’aille ailleurs me buter à la vie pour revenir avec une soif intarissable vers toi, mon sens.”
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Maria Casarès à Albert Camus, août 1948
- English :”
I was too young when I first met you to fully grasp everything that the word ‘we’ represents. Perhaps it was necessary that I had to bang my head against life in order to return with an insatiable thirst for you and for meaning.”
Maria Casarès to Albert Camus
“In the world I am. Always a stranger. I do not understand its language. It does not understand my silence.”
— Bei Dao (via quotemadness)
“[…] tu es le seul être qui m'ait donné des larmes.”
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Albert Camus à Maria Casarès ,Paris,Octobre 1944
- English : “You are the only being that has given me tears.” Albert Camus to Maria Casarès
“At the present time, I long only to sleep and to remain silent. I am sick of humanity.”
— Albert Camus to Jean Grenier, Correspondence 1932-1960
“As for myself, I had a lot to say. But I was silent.”
— Albert Camus, from Youthful Writings; “Intuitions,” wr. c. 1932
““Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend””
— Albert Camus
“She gave a single, long, full-throated howl, as if she wanted to rid herself at once of all the cries that pain had stored up in her.”
— Albert Camus, from “The First Man,” originally published c. 1994
