"After all perhaps the greatness of art..." - Quote by Albert Camus
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.
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“Il y a dans les hommes plus de choses a' admirer que de choses a' me priser. There are more things to admire in people than to despise.”
“More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.”
“You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
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