“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.”
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
