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

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
~ Albert Camus ~












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"Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering.
"Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
"Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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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...
"Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. ...
"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...
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
"Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched—just as a determination not to k...
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