(by Brandon Witzel)
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Going down to Florence, I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity.
Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy.
The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
One must not cut oneself off from the world. No one who lives in the sunlight makes a failure of his life. My whole effort, whatever the situation, misfortunate or disillusion, must be to make contact again.
Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942 (via comforthings)
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- thanks in advance: get this done by the time i press "send"
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- best: i have never physically met you
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- i'll let you know when i hear anything: i will forget to
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- per our earlier conversation: i just yelled at you on the phone
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- thanks!: i'm not mad at you
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- thanks!!!: i'm crying at my desk
- please advise: this might be your fault
- kindly advise: this is entirely your fault
- mind if i swing by?: i'm already in the elevator
- can you confirm for me: you told me before and i deleted the email
- sorry if that was unclear: i think you're an idiot
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