“At Rainbow Cake, January's special flavors would be dark chocolate and coffee, those pick-me-ups we all needed to start the day- or a new year. To me, their toasty-toasty flavors said that even if you only had a mere handful of beans and your life went up in flames, you could still create something wonderful.
A little trial by fire could do you good. After all, if it worked so well with raw cacao and coffee beans, it could work for others, including me.”
Source: The Cake Therapist
“Kembali menjalani yang pernah kautinggalkan itu lebih sulit daripada yang kaukira.”
Source: For One More Day
“But perhaps someday, when we are ready to die of exhaustion and ignorance, I shall be able to disown our garish tombs and go and stretch out in the valley, under the same light, and learn for the last time what I know.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“You are unique. You are beautiful. You are you”
“What a temptation to identify oneself with those stones, to melt into that burning and impassive universe that defies history and its ferments! That is doubtless futile. But there is in every man a profound instinct which is neither that of destruction nor that of creation. It is merely a matter of resembling nothing.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“There the world began over again every day in an ever new light. O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Oh, to be nothing!” For thousands of years this great cry has roused millions of men to revolt against desire and pain. Its dying echoes have reached this far, across centuries and oceans, to the oldest sea in the world.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Flowers, tears (if you insist), departures, and struggles are for tomorrow.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“O mornings in the country of Oran! From the high plateaus the swallows plunge into huge troughs where the air is seething. The whole coast is ready for departure; a shiver of adventure ripples through it. Tomorrow, perhaps, we shall leave together.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“It is Christianity that began substituting the tragedy of the soul for contemplation of the world. But, at least, Christianity referred to a spiritual nature and thereby preserved a certain fixity. With God dead, there remains only history and power.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays