If the world were clear, art would not exist.
~ Albert Camus

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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
~ Albert Camus

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Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
~ Albert Camus

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Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer’s ink.
~ Albert Camus

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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotence.
~ Albert Camus

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Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
~ Albert Camus

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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
~ Albert Camus

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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
~ Albert Camus

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Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
~ Albert Camus

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