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Book: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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  1. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful."
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  2. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    Ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir.
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  3. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?
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  4. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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  5. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    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.
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  6. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
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  7. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
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  8. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.
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  9. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
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  10. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
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  11. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance the gap will never be filled.
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  12. Albert Camus _ The Myth of Sisyphus and Other

    Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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