“Perhaps my life was triumphant not because it lacked evil and defeats but because I could see with my own eyes how what was just a vague promise is slowing being fulfilled and how that which I suspected of false greatness is disintegrating. The concealed structure of reality is reasonable. ”

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The quote goes on: Nonetheless, almost never, with the exception of a few brief moments, did the conviction abandon me that sooner or later the absurd will fail, and this is what distinguished me from my despairing contemporaries

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