This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart. The absurd depends as much on man as on the world.We must not cease in our exploration, Camus affirms, if only to hear more sharply the silence of the world. In effect, silence sounds out when human beings enter the equation. If “silences must make themselves heard,” it is because those who can hear inevitably demand it. And if the silence persists, where are we to find meaning? Therefore; For the moment it is all that links them together. Understand this: we can despair of the meaning of life in general, but not of the particular forms that it takes; we can despair of existence, for we have no power over it, but not of history, where the individual can do everything. It is individuals who are killing us today. Why shouldnt individuals manage to give the world peace? We must simply begin without thinking of such grandiose aims and trust in our own human-ness. Albert Camus;.....{ The silence has finally made itself heard to me and it is within this silence; that I have found “a consciousness astonished at itself, right at the core of my own human existence.”} Rob Heeb
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