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“Conscious that I cannot stand aloof from my time, I have decided to be an integral part of it.”

“And blest are those,” says Hamlet, “whose blood and judgment are so well commingled that they are not a pipe for fortune’s finger to sound what stop she please.”

“The absurd does not liberate, it binds.”

“If he substitutes for his cry of revolt a frantic adherence, at once he is led to blind himself to the absurd which hitherto enlightened him and to deify the only certainty he henceforth possesses, the irrational.”

Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness.