March 2010
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February 2010
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“Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sounds and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (5:5:23-28)
Submitted by Laura, site: http://heyhereyougo.blogspot.com/
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine’?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Listen
La Dispute - Six
hell of a song they’ve got here. the ‘lyrics’ are a short reading from The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus.
W.H. Auden on Kierkegaard (1944) →
tnr.com
I enjoyed this article, particularly the last paragraph. He even quotes St. Augustine (a personal favourite)!
“I have the same horror of evil as you do. But I don’t share your hope…”
—Albert Camus addressing a group of Dominican monks in 1948. (via mazenmason)
“As for that thorn he feels in his heart, he is careful not to quiet its pain. On the contrary, he awakens it and, in the desperate joy of a man crucified and happy to be so, he builds up piece by piece - lucidity, refusal, make-believe - a category of the man possessed.”
—on Kierkegaard, from The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
“Sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
—Albert Camus (via andghosts) (via thingsgohazy)
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“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought , ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics - in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and like it inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.”
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Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (P. 87)
All is not chaos; the experience of the absurd is the proof of man’s uniqueness and the foundation of his dignity and freedom.
“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.”
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Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (P. 14)
With these as the basic certainties of the human condition, Camus argues that there is no meaning to life.
(via shynessisnice)
All I know is that I exist, that the world exists, and that I am mortal.
“The absurd is not in man nor in the world, but in their presence together…it is the only bond uniting them.”
—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (P. 21)
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (P. 21)
