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  • #1
    Albert Camus
    “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #3
    Albert Camus
    “Live to the point of tears.”
    Albert Camus

  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
    Albert Camus

  • #5
    Albert Camus
    “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.”
    Albert Camus, The Fall

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #9
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #10
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #13
    Albert Camus
    “Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.”
    Albert Camus, The Plague

  • #14
    Franz Kafka
    “We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
    Rumi

  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.”
    Albert Camus

  • #17
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #18
    Franz Kafka
    “Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
    Franz Kafka, The Trial

  • #19
    Franz Kafka
    “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
    Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

  • #20
    Franz Kafka
    “Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so?”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #22
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Ya lo verán, decía, se volverán a repartir todo entre los curas, los gringos y los ricos, y nada para los pobres... porque éstos estarán siempre tan jodidos que el día en que la mierda tenga algún valor los pobres nacerán sin culo".”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • #23
    Albert Camus
    “Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
    Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

  • #24
    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #25
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #26
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • #27
    Albert Camus
    “An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
    Albert Camus

  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #29
    Franz Kafka
    “There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #30
    Albert Camus
    “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
    Albert Camus



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