“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
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“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― The First Man
― The First Man
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