I recently came across additional lines of this quote that were not included on my bedroom poster, which elaborate on Camus’s philosophy:
“And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
Source: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/508603-in-the-midst-of-winter-i-found-there-was-within
Camus was a French philosopher, author, and political journalist, as well as a producer of theater and a playwright. He was born in French Algeria in 1913 and later lived in France. He passed away in 1960, at the age of 46.
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