The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that, from our very prison, we should draw from our own selves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
−André Malraux
On the cell walls of 20th century man's bedeviled self, few writers have inscribed more powerful images of revolt against the "absurdity" of man's fate than France's Albert Camus. Last week the 43-year-old novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher, editor and Resistance leader was decorated with literature's Legion...
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