> Even if the novel describes only nostalgia, despair, frustration, it still creates a form of salvation. To talk of despair is to conquer it. Despairing literature is a contradiction in terms.

https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/english-collections-k-z/The Rebel - Albert Camus.pdf
#CamusOnDespair in a footnote in #TheRebel #TalkOfDespair