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Nonfiction · Philosophy

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus
1942 · 212 pages

The only serious philosophical question, Camus opens, is whether to kill yourself. His answer: the universe will never explain itself, so you live anyway, unreconciled, like Sisyphus happy pushing his rock uphill forever.

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