“The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.”

—  Albert Camus, book The Myth of Sisyphus

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation

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French author and journalist 1913–1960

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