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" The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. "

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" I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. "

" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

" How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

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

" Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. "

" Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. "

" To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. "

" Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day. "

" The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. "

" Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. "

" To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. "

" One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. "

" Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. "

" A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

" Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it. "

" He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. "

" The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance. "

" For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. "

" I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. "

" Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much? "

" In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. "

" We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. "

" What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. "

" We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. "

" Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. "

" In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. "

" There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. "

" Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. "