'While Dostoevsky proposes suicide as the only logical response to an awareness that God does not exist, Camus proposes that the man without God must not kill himself, but realize instead that he is condemned to death, and live his life saturated with that terrible knowledge: Camus proposes awareness itself." -James Wood in the introduction to The Myth of Sisyphus.

In the Preface, Camus notes: Although The Myth of Sisyphus poses mortal problems, it sums itself up for me as lucid invitation to live and to create, in the very midst of the desert.

Before I write in detail about The Myth of Sisyphus. Here are few more quotes:

"If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences."

"In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth."

"We turn towards God only to obtain the impossible. As for the possible, men suffice."

"The surprising reply of the creator to his characters, of Dostoevsky to Kirilov, can indeed be summed up thus :Existence is illusory and it is eternal."