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"'If we could contemplate clearly the exact laws of psychic processes, they would be seen to be likewise eternal and invariable, like the basic laws of theoretical natural science. Hence they would be valid even if there were no psychic process.' Even if the mind wee not, its laws would be!" p.46

"Sin is not so much knowing (if it were, everybody would be innocent) as wanting to know." p.49

"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.

probably the most difficult thing i've ever read