Albert Camus
"La lutte elle-meme vers les sommets suffit a remplir un couer d'homme. Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux."
LE MYTHE DE SISYPHE
(TRANSLATION: The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart swell. Sisyphus must be regarded as happy.)
November 7, 1913 -
January 4, 1960
Nobel Prize: 1957
"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."
"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
"After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason."
THE STRANGER
POSTSCRIPT
"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it,
to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
HENRY MILLER, THE WISDOM OF THE HEART
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