What Albert Camus thinks about optimism

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French writer and philosopher (1913 to 1960), born in Algeria, author of The Stranger, The Plague and The Myth of Sisyphus, and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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1. c. 1942

   Our readingHope is the typical act of evasion, and a fatal one

   Their wordsThe typical act of eluding, the fatal evasion that constitutes the third theme of this essay, is hope.

   ↗The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin, 2013 edition; tr. Justin O'Brien)books.google.com All 19 from this book

3. c. 1942

   Our readingThe absurd makes clear that there is no future

   Their wordsThe absurd enlightens me on this point: there is no future.

   ↗The Myth of Sisyphus (Penguin, 2013 edition; tr. Justin O'Brien)books.google.com All 19 from this book