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Sisyphus
«The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
fill, heights, imagine, Sisyphus, struggle
«Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
gloss, glosses, in the same breath, piling, relevant, self-satisfied, Sisyphus, six hundred, string
«Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Housework
| Keywords:
clean, day after day, endless, housework, over and over, repetition, repetitions, Sisyphus, soiled, tasks, The Clean, torture, torturing
«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.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ceaselessly, condemned, dreadful, fall back, futile, hopeless, rolling, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stones, Sisyphus, The Rolling Stones, whence
