The writer Camus gave a speech in 1957 where he talks about another generation's view of what seemed like a doomed world, and his own answer to that, which was the responsibility and privilege of telling that story. I find it hopeful.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1957
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our time...
