invincible love

[Gabrielle Dean]

Howard sent me this wonderful quote last week.  Need it more than ever today. (Not sure to whom the letter was addressed.)

“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Truly yours,
Albert Camus”

[Kim Kemp]

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[Pamela O’Cuneen]

True, it’s a wonderful quote but I suspect the phrase “pushing right  back “is a lot more modern and trendy than Camus. Here is what I found:

While Camus is not the author of this honeyed letter, he is surely the author of the isolated sentence ‘in the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer’. He actually wrote it in Retour to Tipasa , a lyrical essay contained in the 1954 book Summer (L'Été). It seems, then, that someone took this original quote and extended it, maybe trying to reach an higher level of sentimentalism and poeticalness, ending up instead decontextualizing and ruining this marvellous sentence. On the site whatwasthatbook.com there is an user who firstly noticed this problem but who was not able to resolve it – someone even read The Stranger again in order to verify whether this letter was there or not!"

In fact his actual words sum up the whole paragraph. 

Pamela 

On 22 Jul 2024, at 07:32, Kim Kemp <kkem...@gmail.com> wrote:



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On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 2:29 PM, 'Gabrielle Dean' via Discussion St Pauls Anglican Beaconsfield <discussio...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Howard sent me this wonderful quote last week.  Need it more than ever today. (Not sure to whom the letter was addressed.)

“My dear,
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love.
In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile.
In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm.
I realized, through it all, that…
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Truly yours,
Albert Camus”

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[Gabrielle Dean]

It’s the words that I liked, whoever really said it.

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[Pamela O’Cuneen]

Yes they are lovely but people really shouldn’t post made up quotes. 

On 22 Jul 2024, at 10:02, 'Gabrielle Dean' via Discussion St Pauls Anglican Beaconsfield <discussio...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

It’s the words that I liked, whoever really said it.

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