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“The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.”
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“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that illumination. Forsaking
beauty and the sensual happiness attached to it, exclusively serving
misfortune, calls for a nobility I lack. But, after all, nothing is true that forces one to exclude.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
beauty and the sensual happiness attached to it, exclusively serving
misfortune, calls for a nobility I lack. But, after all, nothing is true that forces one to exclude.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Luísa’s 2025 Year in Books
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