Camus said imagining a man endlessly pushing a boulder happy is the sane response

In his 1942 essay, Albert Camus used the Greek myth of Sisyphus, condemned to eternally roll a boulder up a hill only to watch it roll back down, as a metaphor for human existence in a universe with no inherent meaning. Rather than despair, Camus argued we should embrace the struggle itself: 'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.'

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus — 1942
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