Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)

Il s’étonnait de la psychologie superficielle qui consiste à concevoir le Moi dans l’homme comme une chose simple, permanente, digne de confiance, et d’une certaine essence. Pour lui, l’homme était un être composé de myriades de vies et de myriades de sensations, une complexe et multiforme créature qui portait en elle d’étranges héritages de doutes

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PEOPLE who know nothing of God and whose lives are centered on themselves, imagine that they can only find themselves by asserting their own desires and ambitions and appetites in a struggle with the rest of the world. They try to become real by imposing themselves on other people, by appropriating for themselves some share of the limited supply of

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"Kierkegaard gives us some portrait sketches of the styles of denying possibility, or the lies of character-which is the same thing. He is intent on describing what we today call "inauthentic" men, men who avoid developing their own uniqueness; they follow out the styles of automatic and uncritical living in which they were conditioned as children.... See more

Fable clearly wants to dominate in these exemplary figures who tell tall tales, as if the biographical fictions, disguises, and denials want to say: “I am not your facts. I will not let what is strange in me, about me, my mystery, be put in a world of fact. I must invent a world that presents a truer illusion of who I am than the social, environmen

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If you look into your own mind, which are you, Don Quixote or Sancho Panza? Almost certainly you are both. There is one part Of you that wishes to be a hero or a saint, but another part of you is a little fat man who sees very clearly the advantages of staying alive with a whole skin. He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting ag

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