I’m sorry, Zagreus, but it’s been a long time since I talked about certain things. So I don’t know any more—-or I’m not sure. When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It’s rain and sun both, noon and midnight. You know, Zagreus, I think of the lips I’ve kissed, and the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I’m all these things at once. I’m sure there are times you wouldn’t even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness—-I can’t say it.
-Albert Camus, A Happy Death
