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"The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to." p.31

"If in order to elude the anxious question: "What would life be?" one must, like the donkey, feed on the roses of illusion, then the absurd mind, rather than resigning itself to falsehood, prefers to adopt fearlessly Kierkegaard's reply: "despair." Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage." p. 41

I think i'm starting to get it.

i set this book down and thought, "i couldn't even begin to explain what i just read."

my two weaknesses: poetry and philosophy.

Reread this section (specifically 41-47) it discusses philosophical suicide, the different ways people negate or rationalize the absurd. Spoke of Husserl’s phenomenology and how its premise is absurd aligned, but Husserl further contemplation reveals a metaphysical truth in everything (compared to Plato’s “world of forms”)