“ The important thing . . . is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments. ”
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). copy citation
Author | Albert Camus |
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Source | The Myth of Sisyphus |
Topic | suffering cure enduring |
Date | 1942 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Justin O'Brien |
Weblink | http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyph... |
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“If he substitutes for his cry of revolt a frantic adherence, at once he is led to blind himself to the absurd which hitherto enlightened him and to deify the only certainty he henceforth possesses, the irrational. The important thing, as Abbe Galiani said to Mme d'Epinay, is not to be cured, but to live with one's ailments. Kierkegaard wants to be cured. To be cured is his frenzied wish, and it runs throughout his whole journal. The entire effort of his intelligence is to escape the antinomy of the human condition. An all the more desperate effort since he intermittently perceives its vanity when he speaks of himself, as if neither fear of God nor piety were capable of bringing him to peace.”
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