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We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took up arms for her.

More from Albert Camus

  1. We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood th…
  2. Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. It steels itself to attain the absolute and authority…
  3. O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I…
  4. Hungary conquered and in chains has done more for freedom and justice than any people for twenty years. But for this lesson to get through …
  5. A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
  6. With rebellion, awareness is born.
  7. A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms th…
  8. There is not love of life without despair about life.

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