The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this...
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There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this...
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Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.
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Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.
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But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no s...
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You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about o...
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Now I can broach the notion of suicide. It has already been felt what solution might be given. At this point the problem is reversed. It was previousl...
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or...
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The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
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I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.
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I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectab...
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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
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But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possibl...
