Aster Vinny

“To be sure, I occasionally pretended to take life seriously. But very soon frivolity of seriousness struck me and I merely went on playing my role as well as I could. I played at being efficient, intelligent, virtuous, civic-minded, shocked, indulgent, fellow-spirited, edifying...I was absent at the moment when I took up the most space.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Look around you. Of all the people you see, no one is here by his own wish. Of course, what I just said is the most banal truth there is. So banal, and so basic, that we’ve stopped seeing it and hearing it.”
― Milan Kundera, The Festival of Insignificance

“Can one be a saint without God?

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- Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me . . . What interests me is - being a man.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Being aware of one's life, one's revolt, one's freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus