The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us. (Albert Camus)

The world evades us because it becomes itself again. That stage scenery masked by habit becomes what it is. It withdraws at a distance from us.

Albert Camus

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