Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.
Simone de BeauvoirTags: housework repetition sisyphus
Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
Albert CamusTags: success perseverance sisyphus
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
AristotleTags: human-condition desire sisyphus
Was [Sisyphus] from your province?
'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.'
'Then why tell his story?' I don't understand, and for a second I feel betrayed. Why did Ky tell me about this person and make me feel empathy for him when there's no proof that he ever lived at all?
Ky pauses for a moment before he answers, ...'Even if he didn't live his story, enough of us have lived lives just like it. So it's true anyway.
Tags: life truth stories myths real sisyphus
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