Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine …

Albert Camus
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. ✨ ALBERT CAMUS (1971). NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. ✨ ALBERT CAMUS (1971). NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY

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