Camus: depths of long days of brooding

From the writing of existentialist Albert Camus:

"And then it dawned on him that he and the man with him weren't talking about he same thing. For while he himself spoke from the depths of long days of brooding upon his personal distress and the image he had tried to impart had been slowly shaped and proved by the fires of passion and regret, this meant nothing to the man to whom he was speaking."

and from "The Absurd Man"

"'My field,' said Goethe, 'is time.' That is indeed the absurd speech. What, in fact, is the Absurd Man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign to him. But he prefers his courage and his reasoning. The first teaches him to live without appeal and to get along with what he has; the second informs him of his limits. Assured of his temporally limited freedom, of his revolt devoid of future, and of his mortal consciousness, he lives out his adventure within the span of his lifetime."