The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than their meaning in the dictionary.
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
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