"Yes, I'm happy, in human terms."
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"The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed."
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"Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical."
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"Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland"
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"The mistake that men make is that they do not believe in theater. Otherwise, they would know that every man is allowed to play thecelestial tragedies and to become god. All he has to do is harden his heart."
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"But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice."
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"The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall."
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"It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion."
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"The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves."
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"I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone."
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"The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd."
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"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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"The truth, as the light, makes blind."
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"A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope."
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"For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself."
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"A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it."
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"Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given."
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"It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature."
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"Life is the result of all your choices."
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"This is the century of fear."
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