The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Absurd Man
“Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.”
Cassandra (1860)
Context: Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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“Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.”
Black Elk
(1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Source: Black Elk Speaks (1961), Ch. 17 : The First Cure
Context: Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nation's hoop.
Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 43
“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”
Adriana Trigiani
(1970) American film director
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Samuel Butler
(1835–1902) novelist
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Context: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
