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

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We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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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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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

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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.

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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...more

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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with...more

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What I'm sure of," he began, "is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like superficiality and I don't like romanticism. I like t...more

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For him, too, starting over, departures, a new life had a certain luster, but he knew that only the impotent and the lazy attach happiness to such thi...more