“To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.”
― Mysteries
― Mysteries
“And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?”
― Under the Never Sky
― Under the Never Sky
“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being–-not by any approximation in thought, but by being. I want to be and not be ashamed of being.”
― A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel
― A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel
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