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The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
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For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
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Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
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In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.
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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
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A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.
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We know, and what we really know, practical assent and simulated ignorance... allows us to live with ideas which, if we truly put them to the test, ought to upset our whole life.
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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.
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People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.
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It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
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For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.
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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
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The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
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One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
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From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
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Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?
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"I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
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These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect.
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The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
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To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
November 7, 1913
Died:
January 4, 1960
(aged 46)
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