The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)

It is up to us to be conscious of them. Being aware of one’s life, one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.

Mystics, to begin with, find freedom in giving themselves. By losing themselves in their god, by accepting his rules, they become secretly free. In spontaneously accepted slavery they recover a deeper independence. But what does that freedom mean? It may be said, above all, that they feel free with regard to themselves, and not so much free as libe

But a single truth, if it is obvious, is enough to guide an existence.

I want everything to be explained to me or nothing. And the reason is impotent when it hears this cry from the heart. The mind aroused by this insistence seeks and finds nothing but contradictions and nonsense. What I fail to understand is nonsense. The world is peopled with such irrationals. The world itself, whose single meaning I do not understa

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

a knowledge without illusions which negates everything they profess.

But he rejects regret, that other form of hope.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

Being aware of one’s life, one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.