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Pushing Sisyphus' boulder

The fundamental question of human existence is: If one can cease to be, what does it mean to have been?

Mon, 24 Oct 2016

I’m reading Albert Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus again. Camus was something of a precursor to the existentialists, he predates postmodern thought.

In Sisyphus, Camus grapples with the absurdity of life – how can anything we do have meaning when in the end we all die? At one point, he says something

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