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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
From A Happy Death
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Topic: Happiness
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
From L'Étranger
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Topic: Life
Nothing in life is worth,
turning your back on,
if you love it.
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Topic: Life
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
From Neither Victims Nor Executioners
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Topic: Death
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
From The Fall
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Topic: Relationships
since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
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Topic: Religion
God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts his power. His greatness is his incoherence. His proof is his inhumanity. One must spring into him and by this leap free oneself from rational illusions.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
From A Happy Death
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Topic: Funny
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
From The Rebel
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Topic: Philosophical
Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!
From The Fall
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Topic: Philosophical
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 others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
From The Fall
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Topic: Happiness
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
From The Plague
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Topic: Life, Religion
Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.
From The Stranger
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Topic: Life, Philosophical
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
From The Fall
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Topic: Death
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
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Topic: Success
This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
From The Myth of Sisyphus
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Topic: Philosophical
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
From The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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Topic: Happiness
hope is awakened, given life, sustained, by the millions of individuals whose deeds and actions, every day, break down borders and refute the worst moments in history, to allow the truth—which is always in danger—to shine brightly, even if only fleetingly, the truth, which every individual builds for us all, created out of suffering and joy.
From Create Dangerously
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Topic: Hope
Live to the point of tears.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
From Notebooks 1951-1959
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Topic: Religion
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
From The Stranger
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Topic: Funny
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
From The Stranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
From A Happy Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
From L'Étranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Nothing in life is worth,
turning your back on,
if you love it.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
From Neither Victims Nor Executioners
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
From The Fall
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts his power. His greatness is his incoherence. His proof is his inhumanity. One must spring into him and by this leap free oneself from rational illusions.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
From A Happy Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
From The Rebel
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!
From The Fall
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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 others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
From The Fall
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
From The Plague
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life, Religion
Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.
From The Stranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life, Philosophical
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
From The Fall
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
From The Myth of Sisyphus
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
From The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
hope is awakened, given life, sustained, by the millions of individuals whose deeds and actions, every day, break down borders and refute the worst moments in history, to allow the truth—which is always in danger—to shine brightly, even if only fleetingly, the truth, which every individual builds for us all, created out of suffering and joy.
From Create Dangerously
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Live to the point of tears.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
From Notebooks 1951-1959
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
From The Stranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
From The Stranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
From A Happy Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
From L'Étranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Nothing in life is worth,
turning your back on,
if you love it.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
From Neither Victims Nor Executioners
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
From The Fall
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
God is perhaps full of hatred and hateful, incomprehensible and contradictory; but the more hideous is his face, the more he asserts his power. His greatness is his incoherence. His proof is his inhumanity. One must spring into him and by this leap free oneself from rational illusions.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
From A Happy Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
From The Rebel
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!
From The Fall
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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 others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
From The Fall
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
From The Plague
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life, Religion
Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.
From The Stranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life, Philosophical
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!
From The Fall
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.
From The Myth of Sisyphus
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
From The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
hope is awakened, given life, sustained, by the millions of individuals whose deeds and actions, every day, break down borders and refute the worst moments in history, to allow the truth—which is always in danger—to shine brightly, even if only fleetingly, the truth, which every individual builds for us all, created out of suffering and joy.
From Create Dangerously
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Live to the point of tears.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
From Notebooks 1951-1959
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.
From The Stranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Funny
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.
From The Stranger
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
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