“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

— Albert Camus · Wisdom quote

Writer · 1913 – 1960

French-Algerian writer and philosopher, author of The Stranger; Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus · ✓ Source verified

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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.