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Albert Camus on Stubbornness and Creativity

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Albert Camus on Stubbornness and Creativity
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“There is no greatness without a little stubbornness… Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity.”

Three years after he became the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize, awarded him for literature that “with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience,” Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. The

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