Those who need myths are indeed poor. Here the gods serve a… - Albert Camus

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Those who need myths are indeed poor. Here the gods serve as beds or resting places as the day races across the sky.

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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Those who need myths are indeed poor. Here the gods serve as beds or resting places as the day races across the sky. - Albert Camus

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