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But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

By Albert Camus

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Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a French author, journalist, philosopher and Nobel Prize winner. His writings contributed to the rise of absurdism, and though he was often considered an existentialist, he rejected that description and remained critical of the philosophy.

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