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Albert Camus1913–1960

All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Albert Camus on philosophy

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), “The Absurd Man”

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