“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched - just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance - so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Those who lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.” UnintelligenceA Happy Death Book:A Happy Death Source: A Happy Death
“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence— they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all. And death was a kind of gesture, forever withholding water from the traveler vainly seeking to slake his thirst. But for the others, it was the fatal and tender gesture that erases and denies, smiling at gratitude as at rebellion.” Albert CamusA Happy Death Book:A Happy Death Source: A Happy Death
“And the cripple said intensely: 'A body always has the ideal it deserves, That ideal of a stone- if I may say so, you'd have to have a demigod's body to sustain it.” HappinessPerseveranceTo Be HumanImpersonalityA Happy Death Book:A Happy Death Source: A Happy Death