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French Authors Quotes

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Annie Cohen-Solal
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”
― Annie Cohen-Solal, Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life
tags: aesthetics, altruism, biography, birth-and-rebirth, french-authors, french-biographers, french-biographies, french-resistance, ideologies, intellectual-theories, jean-paul-sartre, public-intellectuals, sacrifice, service-to-mankind, women-biographers, writing-life
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Aberjhani
“Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
tags: aberjhani-on-albert-camus, absurdity, albert-camus, albert-camus-100th-birthday, algerian-authors, essays-on-albert-camus, famous-authors, french-authors, literary-theory, literature, literature-of-commitment, nobel-laureates, nobel-prize-in-literature, philosophy, prophecy, winners-of-the-nobel-prize
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“God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion.

The Literary Cat”
― Fernand Mery
tags: cats, french-authors
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