Notes of the "hyper-aware" - a personal interpretation of the Absurd

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A narrative of one's personal interpretation of Camus' Absurd.

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Notes of the “hyper-aware”:A personal interpretation of the Absurd

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life.Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life.Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

I assure you, gentlemen, that to betoo acutely conscious is a disease,

a real, honest to goodness disease.Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

Notes from the Underground (1864)

Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)

Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)

2010 © photography by Joanne Yong

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