"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."

-- Albert Camus

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“Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.”
“I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.”
“Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.”
“Taxation without representation is tyranny.”
“I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky.”
“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”
“Words are the only jewels I possess Words are the only clothes I wear Words are only the food that sustain my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.”
“Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You canâ€™t feel pain, you arenâ€™t gonna feel anything else, either.”

Source : Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.227, Penguin

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