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but independently arrived at similar ideas, which is how the three of them came to be friends in the first place. Camus did not feel that rejection of a god was a necessary part of the absurd, certainly, but he treated god's absence as a given: "His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land." To say that Sartre never experienced existential angst while Camus did is a very peculiar claim as I imagine almost everyone has experienced it at some stage of their life. Sartre was at times jealous of Camus, who was younger and more attractive, and who politely declined de
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