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zenseiii 's review for:
The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
by Albert Camus
what an interesting book.
a man, given a life, to think.
to think about the absurdity, the meaningless of it all, to realise that happiness and absurdity are the bread and butter of our existence.
to know that philosophical suicide is more dangerous than real suicide, in the notion that you resolve to live your fate instead of revolting at the meaningless of it all and pushing it forward for the mere fact that you exist and can think it.
he's inspiring, and I especially find it funny he never considered himself an existentialist when it drips from his words like honey.
but to quote Camus itself, "to admit the paradox is to make it untrue", so perhaps he was revealing his true ideas in a subversive way.
read this shit, and read the other essays. read the Kafka bit too. the fact that my favorite philosopher so far shares my favorite weird German author is kind of amazing not going to lie :D
a man, given a life, to think.
to think about the absurdity, the meaningless of it all, to realise that happiness and absurdity are the bread and butter of our existence.
to know that philosophical suicide is more dangerous than real suicide, in the notion that you resolve to live your fate instead of revolting at the meaningless of it all and pushing it forward for the mere fact that you exist and can think it.
he's inspiring, and I especially find it funny he never considered himself an existentialist when it drips from his words like honey.
but to quote Camus itself, "to admit the paradox is to make it untrue", so perhaps he was revealing his true ideas in a subversive way.
read this shit, and read the other essays. read the Kafka bit too. the fact that my favorite philosopher so far shares my favorite weird German author is kind of amazing not going to lie :D