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The Myth of Sisyphus

Name: The Myth of Sisyphus
Author: Albert Camus

Albert CamusOriginal title Le Mythe de Sisyphe (French, 1942)

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.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

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

“I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning, p. 170

“Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

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

“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning

“There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

Kirilov
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“A fate is not a punishment.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus

“Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Myth of Sisyphus

“A man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

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

“The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotences.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

Absurd Walls
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning

“To work and create "for nothing," to sculpture in clay, to know one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries — this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on the one hand and magnifying on the other, it the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”

Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus

Kirilov
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation