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Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

Albert Camus
Memories, Regret, Believe
Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.114, Vintage

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Albert Camus
Memories, Joy, Stranger
"The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

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Memories, Roots, Shadow
Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

I understood, by dint of digging into my memories, that modesty helped me to shine, humility helped me to triumph and virtue to oppress.

Albert Camus
Memories, Humility, Shining

Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

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Memories, Mean, Moments
ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

Albert Camus
Memories, Love You, Heart

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

Albert Camus
Memories, Winning, Men
Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.

Albert Camus
Memories, Fear, Home
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

Albert Camus
Memories, Space, People

What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Albert Camus
Memories, Sleep, Divorce
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

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Memories, Eye, Boys
ALBERT CAMUS (1942). “THE Stranger”

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

Albert Camus
Memories, Sorrow, Purpose
Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Albert Camus
Memories, Men, Years
Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.79, Vintage

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