The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. ✨ Albert…

Albert Camus
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p.31, Vintage
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