The Gist of It: Aphorisms & Quotations
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The Gist of It:

Brutal Truths, Bitter Wisdom, Gallows Humor
The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness. — Bull Durham, screenplay by Ron Shelton
- You are free and that is why you are lost.
- In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
— Franz Kafka
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across [...]

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Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”

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.
If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and most prudent of [...]

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