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“What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country … we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits … this is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing … Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same way as distraction, in Pascal’s use of the word, takes us away from God. Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.”
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
― Notebooks, 1935-1951
“Liberty is the right not to lie.”
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“Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.”
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“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.”
― Summer in Algiers
― Summer in Algiers
The Pune Book Readers Club
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This group is intended to carry forward the efforts put up by the Pune Book Readers Club. Our objective is to meet and discuss literature of your choi ...more
NISHANT’s 2024 Year in Books
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