What is the Absurd? It is, as may quite easily be seen, that I, a rational being, must act in a case where my reason, my powers of reflection, tell me: you can just as well do the one thing as the other, that is to say where my reason and reflection say: you cannot act and yet here is where I have to act...
— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

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From 'Fear and Trembling'

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1843

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