The Myth of Sisyphus is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus. The English translation by Justin O'Brien was first published in 1955.
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning, p. 170
“Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Context: Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life. <!-- 116
“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Kirilov
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus
“A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.”
Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.
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The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
Absurd Walls
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
"Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka"
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
“Knowing whether or not one can live without appeal is all that interests me.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus
“Great novelists are philosopher novelists — that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Absurd Man
"Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka"
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
