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A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
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Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.
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One grows out of pity when it's useless.
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I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
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But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice hideous, witless justice.
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Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
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The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
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It's not your pictures I like it's your painting.
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A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.
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And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
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You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.
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The great courage is to stare as squarely at the light as at death.
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
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Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.
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History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
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