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"Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place."
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. So it is with absurdity. The absurd world more than other derives its nobility from the abject birth."
ALBERT CAMUS
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"Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it."
ALBERT CAMUS
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"In reality there is no experience of death. Properly speaking, nothing has been experienced but what has been lived and made conscious."
ALBERT CAMUS
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"It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."
ALBERT CAMUS
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"For conscience moves swiftly or withdraws within itself. It has to be caught on the wing, at that barely perceptible moment when it glances fleetingly at itself."
ALBERT CAMUS
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"The mind's first step is to distinguish what is true from what is false. However, as soon as thought reflects on itself, what it first discovers is a contradiction."
ALBERT CAMUS
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"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus is a fascinating read. Camus is a hardcore existentialist (which I'm not particularly in agreement with) but his ideas remain monumental to the mind. These are a collection of quotes I gathered while reading the book.
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