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" Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. "