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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
— Albert Camus
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The passage suggests that evading this life through hope for another may be a greater failure than despair. Its tentative phrasing leaves room for reflection. The contrast values engagement with life's difficult grandeur over a desire to replace it with an imagined alternative.
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