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Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement.

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Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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If there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur...more

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

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We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poi...more

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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. ...more

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Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and r...more