We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery

Image, We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery

We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

—Albert Camus

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