The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

Le sens de la vie est la plus pressante des questions.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die.

Albert Camus

The Sea Close By

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Camus, Albert. "The Sea Close By." Lyrical and Critical Essays. Vintage Books, 1970. Originally published in L'Eté [Summer]. Gallimard, 1954.

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

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Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C.S. Lewis

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, ch. 29.

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See many skies and seas.

Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie. c. 1840.

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