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Leo Tolstoy 456
Russian writer 1828–1910Related quotes
“Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.”
Source: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 80, p. 503
Archibald Macleish
(1892–1982) American poet and Librarian of Congress
Return from the Excursion, Riders on Earth (1978)
“Absurdity is what I like most in life.”
David Lynch
(1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
“"And life goes on / even without us / who are far by now"
(da Anima Fragile, 1980)”
Vasco Rossi
(1980) Italian singer-songwriter
Siamo solo noi (1981)
“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”
Albert Camus
(1913–1960) French author and journalist
Review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (20 October 1938), p. 5; also quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 43
Context: It is the failing of a certain literature to believe that life is tragic because it is wretched.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live. And M. Sartre's hero does not perhaps give us the real meaning of his anguish when he insists on those aspects of man he finds repugnant, instead of basing his reasons for despair on certain of man's signs of greatness.
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.
“Stop and consider! life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.”
John Keats
(1795–1821) English Romantic poet
" Sleep and Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/126/31.html", st. 5
Poems (1817)
Source: The Complete Poems