Albert Camus

Penguin Modern Classics

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Bianca Miller 

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible. -Pindar, Pythian ii

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. 

I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for Iiving is also an excellent reason for dying). 

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"In the middle of winter, l at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”

mari

But if that reply is sincere, if it symbolizes that odd state of soul in which the void becomes eloquent, in which the heart vainly seeks the link that will connect it again, then it is as it were the first sign of absurdity.

To Chestov reason is useless but there is something beyond reason. To an absurb mund reason is useless and there is nothing beyond reason.

The absurd, which is the metaphysical state of the conscious man, does not lead to God. Perhaps this notion sill become clearer if I risk this shocking statement: the absurd is sin without God.

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when the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy arises in man's heart: this is the rock's victory, this is the rock itself. 

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