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Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French class, and I chose my senior yearbook quote from it. In college, I wrote a philosophy class paper on Camus and Sartre, and again chose my yearbook quote from 'La Peste.'

— Drew Gilpin Faust

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

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— Robert Loomis

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.

— Thom Gunn

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

— Michel Onfray

✗Opposing Perspectives

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

— Franz Wright