The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus · 1942

Albert Camus · 1942 · essay · short read · Deep

Camus asks what to do when life does not seem to have a meaning given from outside, and answers: live anyway, fully and in revolt. The famous last line imagines Sisyphus happy.

Worth knowing: It opens by calling suicide the one truly serious philosophical problem. On a heavy day, choose something else.

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