Albert CamusA man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
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The phrase “a man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.” is a quote by Isaac Asimov, the Russian-American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of speculative fiction in history. He was an extremely prolific writer and one of the most influential people in the history of science fiction and science fiction writing. He is known as one of the three most significant writers in the history of science fiction (the others being Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle). Asimov’s story “I, Robot” won a Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966, one of his three Hugo Awards for best short fiction.
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