Albert Camus Quote

One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. "What! — by such narrow ways — ?" There is but one world, however. Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness.


The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)


One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. What! — by such narrow ways — ? There is but one world,...

One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. What! — by such narrow ways — ? There is but one world,...

One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. What! — by such narrow ways — ? There is but one world,...

One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. What! — by such narrow ways — ? There is but one world,...