"There is no shame in preferring happiness."
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"All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true."
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
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"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
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"Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity."
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"When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune."
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"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
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"Life should be lived to the point of tears"
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"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."
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"It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway."
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"Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep."
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"That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3"
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"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
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"The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning."
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"Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
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"The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not."
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"Life is the sum of your choices."
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"A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says."
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"Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate."
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"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth"
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