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“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus

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“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: absurdism, humanism

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#3

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: life, poetry

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#4

“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
― Alfred, Lord Tennyson

tags: faith

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#5

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

tags: attributed-no-source, friends, friendship, misattributed-albert-camus

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#6

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

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#7

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

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#8

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry

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#9

“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”
― Charles M. Schulz

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#10

“Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye.”
― Tennyson

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#11

“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.”
― John Keats

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#12

“Here lies one whose name was writ on water.”
― John Keats

tags: inspirational, lasting-words, tombstone-inscription

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#13

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

(Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven)”
― W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

tags: dreams

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#14

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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#15

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#16

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#17

“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-satan

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#18

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain

tags: living, world

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#19

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

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#20

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

tags: age

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#21

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
― Mark Twain

tags: morals

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#22

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, newspapers

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#23

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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#24

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

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#25

“It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.”
― Arthur G. Lewis, Stub Ends of Thought and Verse

tags: bravery, dog, famous, inspirational, misattributed-dwight-eisenhower, misattributed-mark-twain, valour

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#26

“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
― Mark Twain

tags: advice-for-daily-living, rake

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#27

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-children

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#28

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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#29

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity

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#30

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: beer, drinking, misquote

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