The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. - Albert Camus

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The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

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About Albert Camus

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.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Photograph by United Press International (Public domain / CC0)

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