What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me–that is what I understand. And these two certainties–my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle–I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?

What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me–that is what I understand. And these two certainties–my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle–I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?

– Albert Camus –

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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