Albert Camus and Justin O'Brien
The Myth of Sisyphus
it is legitimate and necessary to wonder whether life has a meaning; (Location 67)
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even if one does not believe in God, suicide is not legitimate. (Location 68)
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this book declares that even within the limits of nihilism it is possible to find the means to proceed beyond nihilism. (Location 69)
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I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. (Location 100)
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I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions. (Location 102)
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On all essential problems (I mean thereby those that run the risk of leading to death or those that intensify the passion of living) there are probably but two methods of thought: the method of La Palisse and the method of Don Quixote. Solely the balance between evidence and lyricism can allow us to achieve simultaneously emotion and lucidity. (Location 102)
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. (Location 110)
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killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it. (Location 118)
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Dying voluntarily implies that you have recognized, even instinctively, the ridiculous character of that habit, the absence of any profound reason for living, the insane character of that daily agitation and the uselessness of suffering. (Location 121)
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This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. (Location 125)
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Belief in the absurdity of existence must then dictate his conduct. (Location 129)
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. (Location 145)
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Shades of meaning, contradictions, the psychology that an ‘objective’ mind can always introduce into all problems have no place in this pursuit and this passion. (Location 157)
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Men who die by their own hand consequently follow to its conclusion their emotional inclination. (Location 159)
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Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying. (Location 171)
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Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. (Location 173)
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There is a moral to it. It teaches that a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses. (Location 185)
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the last pages of a book are already contained in the first pages. (Location 188)
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I come at last to death and to the attitude we have towards it. On this point everything has been said and it is only proper to avoid pathos. Yet one will never be sufficiently surprised that everyone lives as if no one ‘knew’. This is because in reality there is no experience of death. Properly speaking, nothing has been experienced but what has been lived and made conscious. Here, it is barely possible to speak of the experience of others’ deaths. It is a substitute, an illusion, and it never quite convinces us. (Location 225)
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