Listening History
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“...There is a dangerous virtue in the word simplicity. I can understand a man wanting to die because nothing matters anymore when one sees through life completely. A man suffers and endures misfortune after misfortune. He bears them, settles into his destiny. People think well of him. And then, one evening, he meets a friend he has been very fond of, who speaks to him absent-mindedly. Returning home, the man kills himself. Afterwards, there is talk of private sorrows and secret dramas. No, if reason must be found, he killed himself because a friend spoke to him carelessly. In the same way, every time it seems to me that I I’ve grasped the the deep meaning of the world, it is its simplicity that always overwhelms me.”
Albert Camus, “Between Yes and No.”