“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness.
Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at
its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical
imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a
walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no
other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality
time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but 'steal' some time and
give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude.
That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world.
But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”—French novelist, playwright,
essayist, and Nobel Literature laureate Albert Camus (1913-1960), Notebooks 1951-1959 (1962)
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