"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away fro… - Albert Camus

"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French Pied-Noir author, absurdist philosopher and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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