

“I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.”
― The Rebel
― The Rebel

“A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus

“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 judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up. This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance the gap will never be filled.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“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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