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“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”
― Albert Camus

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
― Albert Camus

“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
― Albert Camus

“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”

I like this because only one part is usually quoted but the full quote has such symmetry.”
― Albert Camus

“We are all special cases.”
― Albert Camus

“It is better to burn than to disappear.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“She was like a star, always so distant. Even the light she shone on me was always cold.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her for the rest of her life.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“The Trisolarans who deemed the humans bugs seemed to have forgotten one fact: The bugs have never been truly defeated.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating their natural predators, searching for and destroying their eggs, using genetic modification to sterilize them, burning with fire, drowning with water. Every family has bug spray, every desk has a flyswatter under it… this long war has been going on for the entire history of human civilization. But the outcome is still in doubt. The bugs have not been eliminated. They still proudly live between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers have not diminished from the time before the appearance of the humans. The Trisolarans who deemed the humans bugs seemed to have forgotten one fact: The bugs have never been truly defeated.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984