I believed from my very first conscious thought that my destiny would rise up and meet me.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw — Man and Superman
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful. An analysis of the idea of revolt could help us to discover ideas capable of restoring a relative meaning to existence, although a meaning that would always be in danger.
Albert Camus
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art?
Michel Foucault — On the Genealogy of Ethics