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Tell Me, Camus, About Love
A Few Words of Inspiration
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” Albert Camus
A comfort to my mind and soul you impart in me, Albert, the magnitude of love and the glory of kindness in a wearisome world.
Your observations from the heart walk side by side with a duty to love, no distance apart.
I find the power of unequivocal love in the depth of your reflections as you whisper in my ear that it is merely bad luck not to be loved — but not loving is a misfortune.
I take this as meaning that in the grand scheme of things, loving ourselves and others sows the synergy we desire.
I heed your words of warning,
Violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love.
Resilience fuelled by the empathy of kindness and a love so strong reduces you to tears of compassion but not to tears of pain or persecution. These, on the contrary, only reinforce your spirit and resolution — Thoughts from your last and unfinished book, The Last Man, which inspire me.
Happiness, Albert, is innate in me, not something I need to seek. It is the simplicity of whiling in harmony with my…