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" Where is the absurdity of the world ? In this shining glory, or in the memory of its absence ?
How, with so much sun in my memory could I have wagered on nonsense ? "
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" I was then filled with delight as I saw this fragile snow stand up to all the rain and resist the wind from the sea. Yet every year it lasted, just long enough to prepare the fruit. This is not a symbol, we will not win our happiness with symbols. We shall need something more weighty."
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" Aeschylus is often full of despair; yet he sheds light and warmth. At the centre of his universe we find not fleshless nonsense but an enigma, that is to say a meaning which is difficult to decipher because it dazzles us. At the centre of our work, dark though it may be, there shines an inexhaustable sun."
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" its men, seeing their own shadows reflected on the far wall, take them for the only reality there is. But we have learned there is a light behind us, and that we must turn around and cast off our chains if we are to look at it directly; that our task is, before we die, to seek for all the words we can to name it. "
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