Philosophical
What if the most pointless task isn't actually pointless?
That's the punishment the gods gave Sisyphus. No progress. No finish line. No point. It's supposed to be the worst fate imaginable. But Camus looked at this story and saw something completely different.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.— 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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