A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read …

Albert Camus
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A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted. ✨ Albert Camus (1960). Collected fiction
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