"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
-Albert Camus
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"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.“
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"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
-Albert Camus
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
-Albert Camus
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"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."
-Albert Camus
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"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
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"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."
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"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
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"The main thing I believe in is freedom."
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