“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
Preface, Lyrical and Critical Essays (1970)
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“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
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“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

"Summer in Algiers" http://books.google.com/books?id=N0bNUqDVKJgC&q=%22If+there+is+a+sin+against+life+it+consists+perhaps+not+so+much+in+despairing+of+life+as+in+hoping+for+another+life+and+in+eluding+the+implacable+grandeur+of+this+life%22&pg=PA153#v=onepage, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1955)

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