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The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on

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

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Musings, realization, Opinion, Existential Crisis, Unhappy

“There is no sun without shadows, and it is essential to know the night.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Sun, shadow, Darkness, Night

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

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Understanding

“If it were sufficient to love, things would be too easy. The more one loves, the stronger the absurd grows.”

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Tagged: Love

“Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Appreciation, Reflection, alone time

“I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Absurd, heart, World

“I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: World, world view, understanding the world, Understanding, Clarity

“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Darkness, Day and Night, Problems, Lessons, strength

“Deep feelings always mean more than they are capable of saying.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Emotion, Feelings

“Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness. It awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. What follows is the gradual return into the chain or it is the definitive awakening. At the end of the awakening comes, i…”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Weariness, Recovery, Consciousness

“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Conscious, What You Are Saying, What You Mean

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Thinking, Thoughts, How We Live

“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Melodrama, Suicide, Death, Killing Yourself

“Every summer morning seems to be the first in the world. Each twilight seems to be the last, solemn agony, announced at sunset by a final glow that darkens every hue. The sea is ultramarine, the road the color of clotted blood, the beach yellow. Everything disappears with the green sun; an hour late…”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Nature, Stars, beauty, Summer, Summer Morning

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

Tagged: Absurdity, Absurd, No Answer From The World