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My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here.

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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

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

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You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about o...more

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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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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-ho...more

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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectab...more

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the ...more

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Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity ofconsciousness I transform into ...more

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What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

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To create is to live twice.