If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.

If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of 500 Bibles.In the meantime human beings have discovered this for themselves. That's right. They have uncovered our profoundest concept -- namely, that life is ultimately reading. They themselves are the Book of Books.

But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.