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Albert Camus

First Posted: 08/08/11 11:19 AM ET Updated: 10/08/11 06:12 AM ET

The Observer:

When the French philosopher, author and inveterate womaniser Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960 just two years after winning the Nobel prize for literature, France's intellectual beau monde mourned what seemed an almost freakish tragedy.

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When the French philosopher, author and inveterate womaniser Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960 just two years after winning the Nobel prize for literature, France's intellectual beau monde m...
When the French philosopher, author and inveterate womaniser Albert Camus died in a car accident in 1960 just two years after winning the Nobel prize for literature, France's intellectual beau monde m...
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Brian Austin
Gets more props and stunts than Bruce Willis
06:23 PM on 08/09/2011
That is absurd!
05:48 PM on 08/09/2011
i really wish the first man was finished. but i believe his journal has been published, containing his notes.
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Erewhon7
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07:41 AM on 08/09/2011
That which is stated without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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naschkatze
A free man creates himself.
12:34 PM on 08/08/2011
This is a very interesting story to me because I've never lost interest in existentialism and the existentialists. So, thanks. There are so many posts causing one's blood to boil today, and this was an oasis.