Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.