One of my favorite writers. His notebooks are phenomenal - I started reading them when I was 16, one summer while visiting the NC Outer Banks. Three loves: the ocean; reading good writers; and writing!
The quote depicted in your image is not actually from Camus.
In the original French text, Camus wrote:
« Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible. »
Which translates to:
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
The longer passage in your image (“In the midst of hate… tears… chaos…”) is an embellished modern adaptation, blending the spirit of Camus’s line with stylistic elaborations added later by an anonymous writer. It circulates widely online and in inspirational books, but only the final idea—the “invincible summer within”—is authentically Camus.
who is camus quoting here
We are back at the 14th amendment- We once fought, in body and soul, to affirm what was self-evident:
that we are all created equal.
Centuries later, the question hasn’t returned.
The duty has.
We are no longer being asked to define equality.
We are being asked to protect it.
That is the modern war — not conquest, but preservation.
Not domination, but restraint.
To return civility to the people.
To return sovereignty to the self.
Protected by all.
For all.
In the name of all.
— the broken poet
Needed this hear this.
Great picture!
Very admirable but I’m not feelin’ it just yet.
Ah, but the calm arrives with the void.
The void is a vaccum.
Calm and active aren’t antithetical.
Composed…. Isn’t necessarily calm.
Resignation isn’t acceptence.
it’s extrapolating the necessary actions result…
Letting go?
I guess.
Patti, I have to ask you.
And god I HOPE YOU RESPOND.
What’s your take on the alpha male influencer sphere indoctrinating young men with the tacit ability to exploit and groom women?
Specifically Andrew Tate.
Thank you for sharing this. It was very moving to me.
Timeless
Amazing one, Patti!
Wanna have a look here?
https://sharedechoes.substack.com/p/a-place-called-home
Thank you for this wonderful quote.
One of my favorite writers. His notebooks are phenomenal - I started reading them when I was 16, one summer while visiting the NC Outer Banks. Three loves: the ocean; reading good writers; and writing!
Beautiful words by philosophers
I really needed this today!
Although this is a lovely passage, it was not written by Albert Camus.
Hi Patti,
The quote depicted in your image is not actually from Camus.
In the original French text, Camus wrote:
« Au milieu de l’hiver, j’apprenais enfin qu’il y avait en moi un été invincible. »
Which translates to:
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
The longer passage in your image (“In the midst of hate… tears… chaos…”) is an embellished modern adaptation, blending the spirit of Camus’s line with stylistic elaborations added later by an anonymous writer. It circulates widely online and in inspirational books, but only the final idea—the “invincible summer within”—is authentically Camus.
Trump
Is a superchump.
And Musk
Is nuts