

“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.”
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“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.”
― Summer in Algiers
― Summer in Algiers

“Don’t you think a man better appreciates love when he has been forced for so long to go without?”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension

“On Mars there is not much gravity. So you have to pull the feet to break the neck. They let the loved ones do it.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising

“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that illumination. Forsaking
beauty and the sensual happiness attached to it, exclusively serving
misfortune, calls for a nobility I lack. But, after all, nothing is true that forces one to exclude.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
beauty and the sensual happiness attached to it, exclusively serving
misfortune, calls for a nobility I lack. But, after all, nothing is true that forces one to exclude.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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