In the depth of winter 

I finally learned 

that there was in me 

an invincible summer.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Without work, 

all life goes rotten. 

But when work is soulless, 

life stifles and dies.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

But what is happiness 

except the simple harmony 

between a man and the life he leads?

The evil that is in the world 

almost always comes of ignorance, 

and good intentions 

may do as much harm as malevolence 

if they lack understanding.

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 labour.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. 

You cannot create experience. 

You must undergo it.

The only way to deal 

with an unfree world 

is to become so absolutely free 

that your very existence 

is an act of rebellion.