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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. - Author object (125)

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. - Author object (125)

What is a rebel? A man who says no. - Author object (125)

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. - Author object (125)

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. - Author object (125)

Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart. - Author object (125)

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God. - Author object (125)

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. - Author object (125)

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. - Author object (125)

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. - Author object (125)

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. - Author object (125)

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it. - Author object (125)

A loveless world is a dead world. - Author object (125)

We are all special cases. - Author object (125)

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. - Author object (125)

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others. - Author object (125)

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Author object (125)

Peace is the only battle worth waging. - Author object (125)

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. - Author object (125)

There is not love of life without despair about life. - Author object (125)