…since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn’t it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all out might against death, without raising our eyes toward the heaven where he sits in silence?
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.
The Absurd Man
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
To work and create “for nothing,” to sculpture in clay, to know one’s creation has no future, to see one’s work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries—this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on the one hand and magnifying on the other, it the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.