Toby Offei

“To be sure, I occasionally pretended to take life seriously. But very soon frivolity of seriousness struck me and I merely went on playing my role as well as I could. I played at being efficient, intelligent, virtuous, civic-minded, shocked, indulgent, fellow-spirited, edifying...I was absent at the moment when I took up the most space.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“A hundred times I thought of killing myself, but I still clung to life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most fateful traits, because is there anything more ridiculous than wanting to continue to carry a load you always want to throw off? To despise and yet to feel attached to yourself? In short, to nurse the snake that is gnawing at you until it has eaten away your heart?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
― Clarice Lispector