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“Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”
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“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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