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“(but this feeling is not entirely in me, rather, like a sunrise, it is a sort of delightful and anguishing discovery).”— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959 (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008; first published 1989)
(via an--existential--crisis)
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“…he began to experience, as they drove along, a sensation that he knew well. This was a queer feeling that he had suddenly grown to be of enormous stature, like a giant being borne along that portentous coast-line, with the yellow wintry sun above the Atlantic riding parallel with him. He felt as if he had only to stretch out his hand and clutch this great lemon-coloured orb. He began to rise completely above all those timidities that had so fettered his spirit. He felt strong to cope with his fate…”
– John Cowper Powys, Weymouth Sands
