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is (as paradox) composed in such a way that it is a symbol, a riddle, over which reason has no power at all to dissolve it in nonsense and prove that it is nonsense.

The absurd, the paradox, is composed in such a way that reason has no power at all to dissolve it in nonsense and prove that it is nonsense... no, it is a symbol, a riddle, a compounded riddle about which reason must say: I cannot solve it, it cannot be understood, but it does not follow thereby that it is nonsense.

is a concept whereby it is precisely grasping the fact that it cannot and must not be grasped.

This concept of improbability, the absurd, ought then to be developed, for it is nothing but superficiality to think that the absurd is not a concept, that all sorts of absurdities belong equally under the absurd. No, the concept of the absurd is precisely to grasp the fact that it cannot and must not be grasped.

is a temporal, not a spatial feeling which refers primarily to the disappearance of the sense of continuity in our day.

not a continuous absorption of experiences into a steadily growing individuality, but a discontinuous series of encounters between moods and situations which keep bringing us back to the same point.

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is not to be found within the understanding. It is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

The absurd does not belong to the differences that lie within the proper domain of the understanding. It is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. Fyodor Dostoevsky

is that upon which the world stands, and without absurdities perhaps nothing at all would happen.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. Fyodor Dostoevsky

is that the eternal truth has come into existence in time, that God has come into existence, has been born, has grown up, etc., has come into existence exactly as an individual human being, indistinguishable from any other human being.

What, then, is the absurd' The absurd is that the eternal truth has come into existence in time, that God has come into existence, has been born, has grown up, etc., has come into existence exactly as an individual human being, indistinguishable from any other human being . . .

is the conflict between man's inherent search for meaning and man's inherent inability to ever discover it.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.' (MYTH OF SISYPHUS)

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