Albert Camus, from The Myth of Sisyphus

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” ― Albert Camus

Painting: "Sisyphe" by Charles Andraos

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

I'm filled with a desire for clarity and meaning with a world and condition that offers nothing.

- Albert Camus, The Myth Of Sisyphus

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Albert Camus

Skip your meds and be the next Albert Camus

Although "The Myth of Sisyphus" poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as a lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus (Preface)

Albert Camus, from The Myth of Sisyphus

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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. . . . To understand is, above all, to unify . . . [and] if thought discovered in the shimmering mirrors of phenomena eternal relations capable of summing them up in a single principle, then would be seen an intellectual joy of which the myth of the blessed would be but a ridiculous imitation. That nostalgia for unity, that appetite for the absolute, illustrates the essential impulse of the human drama.

Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

Вoth the russians and the french are depressed, the only difference is that the russians drink tea and the french drink coffee.

Is it also a coincidence that both of these authors have the same initials (A.C)? Or that they died almost at the same early age (44 for Chekhov and 46 for Camus)?

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus.