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Simone de Beauvoir, the writer who was Sartre’s lifelong lover, but whose romance with him admitted all manner of extraneous erotic possibilities, told Camus that he could have her if he wanted her. He did not want her.

What?? The left hasn't made a movie/play about a gay Camus and his relationship with a bi Sartre? They already did to Alexander, Jesus, and Lincoln...

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I don't think Camus was gay—he just wasn't interested in de Beauvoir (after all, she slept around and was mostly sleeping with the physically unappealing Sartre, calling her taste, if not her judgment, into question).