The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
Interpretation
Achieving success through personal struggle is a source of pride and fulfillment.
Albert Camus suggests that the journey of overcoming challenges on the path to success not only elevates an individual's social status but also enriches the emotional experience, leading to a profound sense of personal growth and accomplishment. The 'struggle to the top' embodies the idea that hard work and perseverance cultivate a heart that swells with pride and joy.
In practice
During a motivational speech to inspire young athletes.
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.
Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.
A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - "O man, have faith in yourself."
The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.
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