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If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. ↗
#existentialism #meaning-of-life #nihilism #the-absurd #life
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless journey. It was the tension between these two poles--a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other--that kept me going. ↗
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being. ↗
I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things. ↗
Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? ↗
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. ↗
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. ↗
