Wednesday, February 6, 2019

ALBERT CAMUS from The Rebel

What is a rebel? A man* who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion…

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that, somewhere and somehow, one is right… The rebel … says yes and no simultaneously… In every act of rebellion, the rebel simultaneously experiences a feeling of revulsion at the infringement of his rights and a complete and spontaneous loyalty to certain aspects of himself.

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URSULA K. LE GUIN

"Let not the gendered language detract or distract from the lucidity of Camus’s wisdom, for it is a function of his era"

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