More from Albert Camus

  1. If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impo…
  2. The actor's realm is that of the fleeting.
  3. The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from…
  4. This was her finest role and the hardest one to play. Choosing between heaven and a ridiculous fidelity, preferring oneself to eternity or …
  5. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
  6. 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.…
  7. In that daily effort in which intelligence mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the great…
  8. Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in r…

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