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I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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