“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
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