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One of my favorites. Camus-The Rebel
The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action. To love someone whom one will never see again is to give a cry of exultation as one perishes in the flames of passion. One lives only in and for the moment, in order to achieve ‘the brief and vivid union of a tempestuous heart united to the tempest’ (Lermentov)
I accidentally reblogged this to my personal blog instead of this one.
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notes"Millions of tiny white smiles thronged down from the blue sky. They played over the leaves still cupping the rain, over the damp earth of the paths, soared to the blood-red tile roofs, then back into the lakes of air and light from which they had just overflowed. A tiny plane hummed its way across the sky. In this flowering of air, this fertility of the heavens, it seemed as if a man’s one duty was to live and be happy."A Happy Death by Albert Camus (via meew)
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notes"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn"Albert Camus in Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) (via creativelymaladjusted)
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The grave of Soren Kierkegaard.
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notes"The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed. The interesting thing, however, is to give a meaning to that divinity brought to earth.
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The divinity in question is altogether terrestrial. ‘For three years,’ says Kirilov, ‘I sought the attribute of my divinity and I have found it. The attribute of my divinity is independance.’ Now can be seen the meaning of Kirilov’s premises: ‘If God does not exist, I am god.’ To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being … If God exists all depends on him and we can do nothing against his will. If he does not exist, everything depends on us.
"Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (via wahnbriefe)
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On a related note…
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Fiodor Dostoyevski
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notes Does the realization of the meaninglessness and absurdity of life necessarily require suicide?The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. It comprises about 120 pages and was published originally in 1942 in French as Le Mythe de Sisyphe; the English translation by Justin O’Brien followed in 1955.
In the essay, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd: man’s futile search for meaning, unity and clarity in the face of an unintelligible world devoid of God and eternal truths or values.
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The cover of Kafka’s absurdist 1915 novella Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis), about a man who is inexplicably transformed into an insect
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notes"…how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!… There can be no peace without hope."Albert Camus, 1948, The Plague
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Statue of Soren Kierkegaard.
