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To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.

— Albert Camus

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being." in the context of "Kirilov" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Albert Camus" (Quotes, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942): The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1942, 1955) , Absurd Creation) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app
Albert Camus

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.