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UFOs: A Dark Reality

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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

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Last Love, let me never roll out of this heavy dream of you, let the day I was born mean my life will end where you end let the man behind the church do what he did if it brings me to you. Let the girls in the locker room corner me again if ...more

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“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign to him. But he prefers his courage and his reasoning. The first teaches him to live without appeal and to get along with what he has; the second informs him of his limits. Assured of his temporally limited freedom, of his revolt devoid of future, and of his mortal consciousness, he lives out his adventure within the span of his lifetime. That is his field, that is his action, which he shields from any judgement but his own.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“If it were sufficient to love, things would be too easy. The more one loves the stronger the absurd grows.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“There's no worse punishment than worthless, hopeless labor.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“For the absurd man it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“Written fifteen years ago, in 1940, amid the French and European disaster, this book declares that even within the limits of nihilism it is possible to find the means to proceed beyond nihilism. In all the books I have written since, I have attempted to pursue this direction. Although “The Myth of Sisyphus” poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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