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A figure in a yellow spacesuit and helmet walks down a white, octagonal corridor with black panels, like a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Below, a Playboy interview excerpt with Kubrick: "If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it's worth living?" He answers that the meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning, and ends: "However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

Kubrick on Life's Meaninglessness and Our Own Light

A still from 2001: A Space Odyssey pairs with Stanley Kubrick's Playboy interview on life's purposelessness, ending with "we must supply our own light."

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A figure in a yellow spacesuit and helmet walks down a white, octagonal corridor with black panels, like a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Below, a Playboy interview excerpt with Kubrick: "If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it's worth living?" He answers that the meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning, and ends: "However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

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