“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
—Albert Camus
Albert Camus viewed life with moral seriousness devoid of illusions, which led him into the realm of the absurd.
What is the “absurd” that Camus wrote so profoundly about?
Well, he defines the absurd as the confrontation or collision between two incompatible realities.
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”