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> Even if the novel describes only nostalgia, despair, frustration, it still creates a form of salvation. To talk of despair is to conquer it. Despairing literature is a contradiction in terms.

https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/english-collections-k-z/The Rebel - Albert Camus.pdf
#CamusOnDespair in a footnote in #TheRebel #TalkOfDespair

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> Seeking what is true is not
seeking what is desirable. If in order to elude the anxious question:
“What would life be?” one must, like the donkey, feed on the roses
of illusion, then the absurd mind, rather than resigning itself to
falsehood, prefers, to adopt fearlessly Kierkegaard’s reply:
“despair.” Everything considered, a determined soul will always
manage.
https://archive.org/stream/CamusMythOfSisyphusAndOtherReadings/Camus Myth of Sisyphus and other readings_djvu.txt
#CamusOnDespair in #MythOfSisyphus #CamusSeeeking
Full text of "Camus Myth Of Sisyphus And Other Readings"