“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 suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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