Original artwork, not a still
In the long run, one gets used to anything. After a single day’s experience of the outside world, a man could easily live 100 years in prison. He’d have laid up enough memories never to be bored.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Camus suggests people can adapt to nearly anything, even prison. His twist is that a single day of the outside world could supply enough memories for a hundred years. So the boredom never really arrives, because the past keeps offering something to revisit.
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