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Albert Camus

False identity card established in 1943. At that time, Albert Camus has just published *The Plague*, he writes for *Combat* and joins the Resistance.

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Star Wars Editor Marcia Lucas has Passed

Marcia Lucas, one of three editors who won an Academy Award for their work on the original Star Wars film, has died. She was 80.

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It's my 16 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Albert Camus and Maria Casares

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About Albert Camus - L'etranger / The Stranger, par Nick Kasmik

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Happy birthday to Albert Camus!

(November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960)

"In this light and silence, years of night and fury melted slowly away. I listened to an almost forgotten sound within myself, as if my heart had long been stopped and was now gently beginning to beat again."

Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays (Return to Tipasa)

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The first complete translation of Albert Camus’s personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, including new material never before published in English.

Available December 05, 2025.

Throughout his career, French writer and philosopher Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks that offers an unrivaled glimpse into the writer at his most personal and reflective. These notebooks contain his thoughts on politics, solitude, personal failings and regrets, his travels, and his relationships with friends and rivals. They also provide insight into his process as a thinker—his frustrations, his ideas for novels and plays (some pursued and others abandoned), his routines, his aspirations, and his self-recriminations.

For Camus devotees, there is no more intimate experience than reading these notebooks. On the one hand, his fallibility is on full display: He is irritated by mediocrity, frustrated with his health, plagued by insomnia, and miserable about life’s petty necessities. Yet, he is also intensely curious and observant, sometimes moved to rapture by landscapes and people. Readers will experience the bounty of Camus’s philosophical imagination and will witness firsthand how his ideas take shape. The notebooks contain drafts of letters to friends and recorded reflections on the compromises that being in the world demands.

This publication marks the first time Camus’s complete notebooks have been published in one comprehensive volume. Expertly and movingly translated by Ryan Bloom with extensive footnotes contextualizing the entries, The Complete Notebooks will remain a literary treasure for years to come.

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I love too much; I am a river Surging with spring that seeks the sea.

Sara Teasdale, from “Desert Pools,” in Those Who Love

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, c. 1962

Ink and pencil on wove paper

11 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (28.1 x 21.7 cm)

Estate/Inventory Number H 23.4

Collection National Gallery of Art

Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.56.321.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't imagine love without the panache of pride. There is no intimate relationship between two beings, it seems to me, that can be sustained without a little sublimity. The heart knows this need well and provides for it. It bursts at every moment putting the supernatural and the superhuman everywhere, making any pout, any clumsiness, any platitude, into miracles.

Maria Casarès to Albert Camus, Correspondance, early April, 1950 [#274]

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