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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

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I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

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But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possibl...more

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Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack...more

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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and r...more

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I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

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There is so much sttuborn hope in a human heart.

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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposi...more

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There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart.

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Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judg...more

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It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being...more

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A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

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And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.