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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Albert Camus
Sleep, Insomnia, People

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Albert Camus
Stars, Sleep, Night

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Albert Camus
Sleep, Men, Speaks Out
Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

Albert Camus
Friday, Monday, Sleep
Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

Albert Camus
Sleep, Men, Light
ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.

Albert Camus
Summer, Sleep, May
Albert Camus (1982). “The stranger”

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