Something to remember each day as we start the last month of the year

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life

as in hoping to have another life

and in turning away from the implacable grandeur of this one.

[Car s’il y a un péché contre la vie, ce n’est peut-être pas tant d’en désespérer que d’espérer une autre vie, et se dérober à l’implacable grandeur de celle]

Albert Camus, Nuptials