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author: Albert Camus
category: philosophy
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description: essay on the absurd that asks whether life is worth living, ending with the image of sisyphus as defiantly happy.
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id: The Myth of Sisyphus
language: french
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title: The Myth of Sisyphus
year: 1942
authors: Albert Camus
created: '2022-08-21'
published: '2022-08-21'
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