Absurd Walls
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With the exception of professional rationalists, today people despair of true knowledge. If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotences.
— Albert Camus
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Source: Wikiquote: "Albert Camus" (Quotes, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942): The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (1942, 1955) , An Absurd Reasoning)
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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.
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.
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