

“Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“It got worse still as time went on because people did not sympathize with you any more. They couldn't do enough for you at first, and that helped, and then they got bored with your troubles. But your troubles went on just the same and you had to bear them alone.”
― The Scent of Water
― The Scent of Water

“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge

“This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“However, I must admit that keeping myself to myself has not always been comforting. At times, I seemed to suffer spells of depression and loneliness, longing to become healthy again; of going out and facing a world of injustices, of misery, of widespread indifference.”
― Strangers In Another Country
― Strangers In Another Country
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