Sublime

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

Comme Sartre et tant d’autres, Camus apprit à faire des compromis. Plus tard, dans une préface à la traduction anglaise de 1955, il observa que Sisyphe devait beaucoup à une découverte faite alors qu’il travaillait à ce livre au cours de la défaite française : « à l’intérieur même du nihilisme il est possible de trouver de quoi dépasser le nihilism

For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can any one

Or is it the man gifted with brilliance, but who is then forced to ponder the meaning – or meaningless – nature of existence, and is then driven to infuse significance into his time on this earth by striving desperately to leave some measure of himself behind after he has passed on? Unfortunately, he’ll never have the chance to hold such a debate.

"Obit anus, obit onus" The

Seneca supplied him with one of his favorite epigrams: “Death weighs on him who is known to all, but dies unknown to himself.”

Then he would leave for the underworld, where I could never go, for gods are the opposite of death.