The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a b…

Albert Camus
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The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it. ✨ Review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre in Alger Républicain, (p. 5), October 20, 1938.
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