To lie is not only to say what isn’t true. It is also and above all, to say more than is true, and, as far as the human heart is concerned, to express more than one feels. This is what we all do, every day, to simplify life.
I have always loved Camus! I think this was the only author with whom I fell in love of all the authors I studied in my Masters In English course ! The Stranger. Just loved the book. Dont know why and never tried to rationalise why? And today with free time in hands I again started reading some stuff about this book and him. These lines which Camus has written in the preface to the Stranger made me to think that how real and how very true he is in his this obsevation!!
2 Comments
October 28, 2006 at 8:28 am
A great start but seems incomplete. When I started reading it, I was looking for more but it came to an end, abruptly!
October 29, 2006 at 1:44 pm
Ya, true it is incomplete! Just lost the thread somewhere as some work turned up. Will get back to the same mindset someday and will complete it then.