Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
— Albert Camus
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. — Albert Camus
the writer Charles Bukowski said: ‘Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.’
Robin Sharma • The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
As Albert Camus said, “Man is a creature who spends his entire life trying to convince himself that his existence is not absurd.”
Andrew Juniper • Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence
"Become so absolutely free that your existence is an act of rebellion." - Camus
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Robin Harford added
(what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying).
Albert Camus • The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”
― Albert Einstein
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Steven Kempton added
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the b
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Some people think that in order to be happy they must avoid all suffering, and so they are constantly vigilant, constantly worrying.