Existentialism

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Camus drifts through life untouched by its expectations, and that very detachment terrifies everyone around him. It‘s haunting, the way indifference becomes rebellion; how honesty, stripped of illusion, unsettles those still pretending to understand life. Camus forces you to confront that raw truth, that existence doesn‘t promise purpose, yet we live anyway. And maybe that‘s the point. To exist without needing reason, to linger.

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anushareflects

At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Mauri | Sarah Bakewell

I have a feeling the existentialists would be proud of my reading location today…. 📖📚🙇🏽‍♀️
Lovely way to ring in a Saturday morning ♥️

TalesandTexts 💖💖 2mo

DrSabrinaMoldenReads I loved this book of hers

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

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Cosmos_Moon_River

The Stranger | Albert Camus

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I like to read the books my kids are assigned for the year, if I haven‘t yet. This is an assignment for my son‘s 9th grade lit. I think this is very good literature, but very heavy topics. I am also not for censoring, but maybe too much for 9th grade? What do you all think if you‘ve read it? Dealing with some serious violence, it makes me worry how impressionable 14 year olds are. Kind of a mix of Clockwork Orange and The Car Thief.

Ruthiella I hear where you are coming from, but I think 14 year olds can handle more than adults often think they can. And what they perceive and pick up on from a narrative is going to be different than from someone 20 years older. 2mo

Cosmos_Moon_River @Ruthiella 🥰❤️ thank you for that perspective. I‘m sure that is true. I remember feeling very adult at 14, although looking back at myself then, I probably disagree. Also, you‘re very kind to say 20 years older… it‘s something like that 😆 2mo

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BkClubCare

Sea of Rust | C. Robert Cargill

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Okay. OKAY! Did I almost tear up 😢 at the end and then laugh at myself for it? Yep.

#TeamBrittle and even some #TeamMadKind❗️
I just like the term “madkind”, I think. #bookclub #scifi #existentialism

NOTE: the narrator is a woman, female, so to me Brittle is she/her. Does it matter?

BkClubCare #July2025 Book62 (edited) 4mo

Reggie Ohhh I‘m so glad you liked it! The whole free robot town inauguration incident was so crazy to me. That whole part. I was so tensed. 4mo

BkClubCare @Reggie - It was action packed and also pushed the emotions without being manipulative. 4mo

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YanaMedvetska

The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy | Viktor Emil Frankl

«Людині насправді потрібен не стан без напруги, а прагнення і боротьба за гідну мету.»

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal.”

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YanaMedvetska

The Plague | Albert Camus

“Упродовж історії було стільки ж епідемій, скільки й війн; та все одно вони щоразу застають людей зненацька”.
— Альбер Камю, «Чума»

«Те, що правдиве для всіх лих у світі, правдиве і для чуми: вона змушує людей перевершувати самих себе».
— Чума

«Єдиний спосіб боротися з чумою — це порядність».
— Альбер Камю «Чума»

#ThePlague #AlbertCamus #Existentialism #LiteraryQuotes #ModernClassics #ReadToThink

IriDas I read The Plague after 2020. I‘m glad; because I would have embarrassed myself before by thinking “we would never react like that, we‘re smarter than that now.” 🤦🏼‍♂️ 5mo

YanaMedvetska @IriDas Absolutely agree. I used to think we‘d learned from history. Reading The Plague after living through a real one was humbling — it felt less like fiction and more like a mirror🫣 5mo

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YanaMedvetska

The Myth of Sisyphus | Albert Camus

Слід уявляти Сізіфа щасливим.

“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
— Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”
#kindle #book #happy

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charl08

The Outsider | Albert Camus

The narrator receives a visitor in prison. Lined up next to each other in either side of the bars, so do the other prisoners. The conversations interupt one another. It's hard to talk with his girlfriend.

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charl08

The Outsider | Albert Camus