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“To be sure, I occasionally pretended to take life seriously. But very soon frivolity of seriousness struck me and I merely went on playing my role as well as I could. I played at being efficient, intelligent, virtuous, civic-minded, shocked, indulgent, fellow-spirited, edifying...I was absent at the moment when I took up the most space.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”
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“A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.”
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“Absurdism is a philosophy centered on embracing the meaninglessness of life while simultaneously rebelling against it and embracing what life can offer us.
Camus is most famously attributed with this statement “Life is meaningless.”
While that quote may seem depressing on its own, it changes when we realize that what he is really saying is that we are the creators of meaning in our lives.
Meaning does not originate from life, we assign meaning to life and everything within it.
We get to make it up.”
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Camus is most famously attributed with this statement “Life is meaningless.”
While that quote may seem depressing on its own, it changes when we realize that what he is really saying is that we are the creators of meaning in our lives.
Meaning does not originate from life, we assign meaning to life and everything within it.
We get to make it up.”
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