If I had to write a book on ethics, it would have a hundred pages. Ninety-nine of them would be blank. On the last page I would write: 'I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.'
— Albert Camus Modern

Absurdism, The Stranger

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From 'Notebooks'.

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1935-1942 (Notebooks I)

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Strange & Unusual

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