Commonplace – Page 30 – Lisa Marie Blair

Albert Camus on This Plague

Everyone has it inside himself, this plague, because no one in the world, no one, is immune.”

— Albert Camus, The Plague (via Stowe Boyd)

If you’re stuck in a loop, try walking in a straight line.”

The morning paper turned out to be the main vector of infection.”

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, and we must mind today.”

— Sophocles

“Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness and give it back to the earth’s own weight; the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

— William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun (via Stowe Boyd)

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”

― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates