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“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
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