Absurd

"The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it."

--Albert Camus, review of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (October 20, 1938), p. 5;
also quoted in Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (2002) by Avi Sagi, p. 43.