Love this quote from the 27-year-old Albert Camus:
"We have not overcome our condition, and yet we know it better. We know
that we live in contradiction, but we also know that we must refuse this
contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it. Our task as [humans]
is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of
free souls. We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice
imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a
meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century.
Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks
[we] take a long time to accomplish, that’s all."
Thanks from Brainpickings.org
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