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Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

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Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

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No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

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The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

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I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

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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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There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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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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We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible.

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How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.

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We can act only in our time, among the people who surround us. We shall be capable of nothing until we know whether we have the right to kill our fell...more

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There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart.

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A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can ha...more

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Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.