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The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus

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Camus asks whether life can be lived without appeal to eternal meaning. His answer is neither resignation nor suicide, but lucid revolt: live with the absurd, without false consolation. > There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. > The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.
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Camus begins with the existential question beneath all others: if life has no final meaning, should one keep living? The essay tests whether suicide follows from absurdity.
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The hunger for clarity

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Human beings seek unity, reason, and explanation. The mind wants the world to answer it.

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The world’s silence

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The world does not satisfy that hunger. The absurd arises not from humanity alone or the world alone, but from their confrontation. > The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

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