Albert Camus
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history, and the first laureate in literature born in Africa. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall and The Rebel.
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- Dréan
- Educated at
- University of Algiers 1
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- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature🏆 Q137970105
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"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with oth…"
"What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
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1913
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