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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. All the rest—whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories—comes afterwards.
The Myth of Sisyphus, opening lines. Albert Camus. 1942.
𝓘𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓼 𝓲𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓻𝓾𝓼𝓱 𝓸𝓯 𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻 𝓱𝓪𝓭 𝔀𝓪𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓮 𝓬𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓷, 𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓽𝓲𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭, 𝓰𝓪𝔃𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓾𝓹 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝓻𝓴 𝓼𝓴𝔂 𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓵𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓼𝓲𝓰𝓷𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼, 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮, 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽, 𝓘 𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓶𝔂 𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓰𝓷 𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓯𝓯𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓮.
- The Stranger, Albert Camus. 1942.
this is from spy kids
that one time spy kids got all existential
If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
— Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Dear Sir,
You have made me unhappy. I bought your
Metamorphosis as a present for my cousin, but she doesn’t know what to
make of the story. My cousin gave it to her mother, who doesn’t know
what to make of it either. Her mother gave the book to my other cousin, and she doesn’t know what to make of it either.”
-fan letter to Kafka in 1917
Regardless of how many times I’ve heard this story (the letter) it never gets old.
The Absurd and Suicide.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of the weakness of inertia and dies by chance
— From Sartre’s, “Nausea”
From Sartre’s, “Nausea”