The best parts are poetry rather than philosophy. ( )

I made it to Page 46 and scanned the rest. ( )

what an interesting book.

a man, given a life, to think.

to think about the absurdity, the meaningless of it all, to realise that happiness and absurdity are the bread and butter of our existence.

to know that philosophical suicide is more dangerous than real suicide, in the notion that you resolve to live your fate instead of revolting at the meaningless of it all and pushing it forward for the mere fact that you exist and can think it.

he's inspiring, and I especially find it funny he never considered himself an existentialist when it drips from his words like honey.

but to quote Camus itself, "to admit the paradox is to make it untrue", so perhaps he was revealing his true ideas in a subversive way.

read this shit, and read the other essays. read the Kafka bit too. the fact that my favorite philosopher so far shares my favorite weird German author is kind of amazing not going to lie :D ( )

Philosophical essays considering the absurd condition of modern man. The absurdity and meaninglessness is perhaps best depicted in the titular essay on the myth of Sisyphus. He also develops this in his novel The Stranger and other writings. ( )

"“I hate my time,” Saint-Exupery wrote shortly before his death,
for reasons not far removed from those I have spoken of. But,
however upsetting that exclamation, coming from him who loved
men for their admirable qualities, we shall not accept responsibility
for it. Yet what a temptation, at certain moments, to turn one’s
back on this bleak, fleshless world! But this time is ours, and we
cannot live hating ourselves"