If I obstinately refuse all the ‘later on’s’ of this
world, it is because I have no desire to give up my present wealth. I do not
want to believe that death is a gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed
door…Everything people suggest seeks to deliver man from the weight of his own
life. But as I watch the great birds flying heavily through the sky of Djemila,
it is precisely a certain weight of life that I ask for and obtain.
— Albert Camus - “The Wind at Djemila,” Lyrical and Critical
Essays
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