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What if giving up hope is the most freeing thing you can do?

That sounds bleak. But Camus thought it was actually the starting point for a good life, not the end of one. Here's why: the moment you stop demanding that life make sense, something strange happens. You stop waiting for permission to live.

The absurd does not liberate; it binds.— Albert Camus, *The Myth of Sisyphus*
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The thinker
Philosopher of the Absurd

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a French-Algerian philosopher, author, and Nobel laureate best known for exploring the absurd condition of human existence.

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