Who said “A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.”?

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Albert Camus. A published source records them saying or writing it.

SourceReview of Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, published in the newspaper Alger Républicain (20 October 1938), p. 5; reprinted in Selected Essays and Notebooks, translated and edited by Philip Thody

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“A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.”
— Albert Camus
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Camus, A. (n.d.). A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. [Quotation]. Famous Quotations Network. Retrieved October 24, 2026, from https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/8505-a-novel-is-never-anything-but-a-philosophy/

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Camus, Albert. “A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.” Famous Quotations Network, https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/8505-a-novel-is-never-anything-but-a-philosophy/. Accessed 24 Oct. 2026.

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Camus, Albert. “A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.” Famous Quotations Network. Accessed October 24, 2026. https://www.famous-quotations.com/quotes/8505-a-novel-is-never-anything-but-a-philosophy/.

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