Quotes from The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus
1913–1960 France
62 quotes
A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.
It happens as well that the feeling of the absurd springs from happiness.
"My field," said Goethe, "is time." That is indeed the absurd speech.
Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
To be true, a succession of works can be but a series of approximations of the same thought.
Of all the schools of patience and lucidity, creation is the most effective.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.
The absurd man says yes and his effort will henceforth be unceasing.
Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
Knowing whether or not one can live without appeal is all that interests me.
One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.
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