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To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. - Albert Camus

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