1. Camus
... " (Sisyphus 30). Man is the essential element in this relationship, for without the refusal to accept the world's incongruity, the Absurd would not reveal itself. The confrontation will continue as long as man maintains the need to understand the world while knowing that the world is incomprehensible, without disillusionment of his escape from the absurd. The absurd is the awareness of the conflict between the desires of the human consciousness and the inability of the world to provide ... of a physical world which obeys laws and fits a pattern, all of which is convincing until one is as...
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