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Lillian P.
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"It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole of temporality in order to win eternity, but I do indeed win it and cannot in all eternity renounce that, for that would be a self-contradiction; but it takes a paradoxical and humble courage then to grasp the whole of temporality on the strength of the absurd, and that courage is the courage of faith."
Certainly different from Camus' absurd.
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Certainly different from Camus' absurd.
Rinnei
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Jeg er så gira for denne yippiiiii :D
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Lillian P.
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"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what then would life be but despair?"
Camus calls this "philosophical suicide," but his writing has no lack of "despair," so maybe Kierkegaard's right.
— Jan 22, 2026 09:32AM
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Camus calls this "philosophical suicide," but his writing has no lack of "despair," so maybe Kierkegaard's right.
