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It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the

It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of the world, when 'my appetite for the absolute and for unity' meets 'the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle.'

Albert Camus
Unity, World, Principles

I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.

Albert Camus
Spring, Mean, Unity
Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Albert Camus
Unity, Kind, Rebellion
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.125, Vintage

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

Albert Camus
Rejection, Unity, Artistic Creation
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.253, Vintage

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

Albert Camus
Unity, Demand, Rebellion
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.255, Vintage

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Albert Camus
Life And Death, Evil, Unity
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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