the school year begins and I think of Camus

The task is endless, it’s true. But we are here to pursue it. . . . We have
not overcome our condition, and yet we know it better. We know that we
live in contradiction, but we also know that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it. Our task. . . is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to
peoples poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks men take a long time to accomplish, that’s all. Let us know our aims then, holding fast to the mind, even if force puts on a thoughtful or a comfortable face in order to seduce us. The first thing is not to despair.~ albert camus