GEORGES BATAILLE
The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

ALBERT CAMUS
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