"When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that illumination.... These are the days of exile, of desiccated life, of dead souls. To come alive again, one needs a special grace, self-forgetfulness, or a homeland."
- Camus, "Return to Tipasa"
good writing
cwmackowski
Jan 20, 2013 15:31
From Colson Whitehead's Zone One--The main character wondering what it must've been like for a hunkered-down group of survivors in the zombie apocalypse to suddenly see rescue appear after years of isolated resistance
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good writing