“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

— Albert Camus · Life quote

— ALBERT CAMUS

Writer · 1913 – 1960

French-Algerian writer and philosopher, author of The Stranger; Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.

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