"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
-Albert Camus
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.“
-Albert Camus
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"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
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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."
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"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."
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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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